Go vote for Ubuntu at the REAL Dell site

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Mar 16 17:00:56 UTC 2007


NoOp wrote:
> On 03/15/2007 10:51 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
>> I won't take this thread too far off topic. Gnome is very limited in
>> it's customizability. That's not my opinion alone: Torvalds sems to
>> agree with me. Maybe his patches wil make gnome better, but in the
>> meantime I'll stick with KDE.
>>
>> Dotan Cohen
> 
> Speaking of OT... have an old pc at my mother-in-laws house that was
> running Win2kP; the thing took 15 minutes to boot up. Loaded Ubuntu on
> it & told them that it was the new 'improved' Windows Vista OS. They all
> ooh & awed, saw that it booted in about 1 minute, worked like a champ. I
> let them run it for about a week before I told them that it was Ubuntu
> Dapper Linux.  Now I'm in the process of Ununtu'ing 4 of my in-laws
> older PCs :-)

That's great.  I'm not sure who it's more unfair to, Windows or Ubuntu. :)

Matt Flaschen




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