Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Marti Andrews wrote:

[...]

>Um, we ALL started with Windows, did we not? And do we not still use
> Windows? I play The Sims 2 a lot, I can't play that in Linux. There are a
> lot of things I CANNOT do in Linux.

No Marti, some of us didn't. I've had in chronological order starting in 1978, 
a Quest Super Elf, a Timex 1000, a TI99/4a I still have, about a half a dozen 
TRS-80 Color Computers that all run a mini-unix called OS-9, a couple of full 
blown amiga's, and now on my 6th x86 home built box, and none of them other 
than an HP lappy I bought with XP on it, has ever ran windows cuz it has 
never been installed.  The lappy's total uptime under XP in something over 2 
years now is probably less than 12 hours total as it currently can dual boot 
F7 and XP. 

Default boot on the lappy is F7, Kubuntu-6.06 out in the workshop where that 
machine runs my cnc milling machine, FC6 here, but home made kernel 
2.6.23-rc6 (now that's bleeding edge), I have spare blood the blood banks 
don't want cuz at 73, I've been married too many times & it might be tainted 
with something or other.  I guess they don't trust blood from old, now 
disarmed by sugar, tomcats.

And there is very little you can do in windows that I can't do here except 
stay ahead of the ever changing video encoding at www.cnn.com, I can play all 
the other networks videos, and I could play cnn's stuff 2 weeks ago.

>> > > As for Second Life, I've heard of the game, but not the chat agent.
>
>It's a chat program, I meant. 3D. Works fine here on GNOME. In KDE all the
> graphics were messed up.
>
I use the various IRC programs, all of which work on the machine I might be in 
front of ATM, but other than smiley translations, that is all text based.  It 
gets the job done, and its universal whereas a lot of the yahoo etc offerings 
are both proprietary, and because they are non std, lock non users out.  
That's not how I play the game.

>Marti

The name '3D' still doesn't ring any bells, nothing remotely resembling that 
shows up in the smart list, smart being the package manager I use here.  If I 
think of it, I'll check the listing adept gives me on the kubuntu box 
tomorrow.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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