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

[Matt Brown]

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
You can get a Dell preinstall with Ubuntu.

-Matt