Ubuntu is under attack
Vram
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Thu Dec 22 03:17:26 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 00:51 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> >>2) Many of our users won't have an email address, or indeed any sort of
> >>internet access
> >
> >
> > I think that's not true. There are very few people these days who use a
> > computer but not the Internet.
>
> Most people on the planet don't and won't have internet, but they can
> have access to a second-hand computer, so that is not necessarily true
> and there is no reason to suspect that it will remain true, but email
> can be delivered locally too, so it doesn't matter anyway.
>
> Unfortunately, whilst those computers could easily run an MTA, etc, they
> can't run Gnome because it's a heap of steaming poo, unfortunately I
> can't abide the feel of KDE, so I use Gnome and keep buying
> supercomputers (which is costing me a lot of money, by the way) - I'm up
> to 1.8GHz, 512 MB RAM and a noisy CPU fan now.
Check this place out
www.endpcnoise.com
I buy all my stuff there..
Varm
>
> --
> Tristan Wibberley
>
>
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