9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu - suggestion for the future

[Robert Holtzman]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> Avi Greenbury wrote:
>> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 	The business people tend to stay with a particular operating
>>> system a long time. There are large companies still using
>>> Windows 98.
>>
>> Not many.
>>
>>> 	Now the Linux business software is made by Red Hat which
>>> trades on the big board. This IS the business source.
>>
>> Red Hat is a big commercial Linux vendor, and they sell to business. As
>> do Novell with SuSE.
>> They are two of the big three commercial linux vendors, the third being
>> Canonical.
>>
>>> 	What Ubuntu should do is provide an operating system for the
>>> world. It appears that Ubuntu is used more outside the USA
>>> than within. It is installed by the user with all the problems
>>> that causes.
>>
>> I don't follow.
>
> 	What is it you do not follow? Windows is smart, they get the
> computer makers to buy Windows and install it. You buy the
> computer your windows works.
>
> 	Ubuntu you d/l from a web site and you try to get it loaded
> on your present 5 year old computer which came with Windows XP
> installed and working. It might work, it might not. If not you
> might hear about it on this list.
>
> 	Can you follow this?

Yes, Karl. Now we follow. We would have before if you had stated it this 
plainly in your previous post.

In the words of Doyle Lonigan: Follow?

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