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Article #1070Re: ubuntu on the net
From: James C
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:06
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:06
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On 16/07/08 08:17, Zebee Johnstone wrote: > In aus.computers.linux on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:15:56 +1000 > Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> wrote: >> It's a fecking cow due to the fact that network manager was written by >> ethernet/wireless bigots who wouldn't know a PPP session if it did the >> nasty with their dog. > > This is an Ubuntu special I take it? I thought Network Manager was a Gnome app. I don't use it because it continuously flickers busily on the panel. > I tried Ubuntu once. I think I lasted about a day before I decided > that it made things way too hard. > I just wanted to compile something. Just finding the libraries I > needed took hours. I find Synaptic package manager is pretty good for finding things. > Heaps of people bash RedHat/Fedora, and I usually figure I like it > because I am used to it as I've been using it since the choices were > that or Slack and I wanted a change from Slack. But the more I hear > about Ubuntu the more I think that maybe it's not just that... I switched from RedHat 9 to Ubuntu two years ago. Didn't try Fedoras. Overall I find fewer annoyances with Ubuntu than I had with Redhat. But I still haven't mastered dpkg/apt enough to prefer it to RPM.
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X-Google-Thread: 102983,a132804ba3fcd2ac X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.alt.net!news.kjsl.com!news.exile.org!abnormal.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: James C <enough.already@no.more.spam.please> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080502) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux Subject: Re: ubuntu on the net References: <48780da9$0$1024$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <slrng7g52k.54g.zebeej@gmail.com> <slrng7k71c.908.brong@ravna.brong.net> <slrng7q8g7.ao1.zebeej@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <slrng7q8g7.ao1.zebeej@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Message-ID: <Q3afk.20012$IK1.19053@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:06:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.210.121.182 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1216163184 121.210.121.182 (Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:06:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:06:24 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services