Comment Re:Baloney (Score 1) 467
as you have no way to check, if all the facts you believe is true, doesn't it happen, that you believe in them without proof, just because it is explained in book and makes sense in you?
as you have no way to check, if all the facts you believe is true, doesn't it happen, that you believe in them without proof, just because it is explained in book and makes sense in you?
So why is the lean mean OS going the way of Windows?
people like shiny shit.
there you have new, shiny hardware with multiple cores, shitload of ram, distro worth multiple gigabytes on hard disk, and all you do is use about 3 minutes cumulative processor time in hour, while reading slashdot. for 57 minutes processor is sleeping, ready to jump on whatever fancy calculation you might throw at it.
makes you wince, doesn't it?
and then you found out that disk #3 wasn't reading.
talk about good times.
you need the bandwith to download the iso anyway, and you can avoid the bloat if you don't check anything in tasksel and apt-get by hand.
you will most probably get up and running faster, as you wont install the bloat you don't need.
ubuntu used to have net-install too (i haven't used ubuntu for a while, so i don't know if it's still true), but it was well hidden.
while, big business can use emacs, for what it's worth, hospitals in denmark, probably need an easy way to produce odf, as it's official standard for denmarks government bodies and lot of documentation flow for hospitals is with government.
libre office does that, so they can cut expenses on software rather than, say patient care or staff salary.
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