OLPC moving to Windows XP from Linux ... in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20495728 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:39:47 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:39:47 EDT Re: OLPC moving to Windows XP from Linux ... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498886 anon :
said by Matt See Profile :

I support 11 CentOS 5.1 servers ... with a few SuSe boxes thrown in, along with 3 Windows SQL boxes.
Okay, but that begs the question... If you work with and actively support a Linux system, why would you call Linux an "irrelevant OS" ?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498886 Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:37 EDT Re: OLPC moving to Windows XP from Linux ... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20497797 patcat88 :
said by Matt See Profile :

The reality, having an OLPC with Windows XP will do more to advance 3rd world countries than some new laptop with an entirely irrelevant OS.
Nothing like govt subsidized botnets, isn't socialism great? :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20497797 Sat, 17 May 2008 12:30:12 EDT Re: OLPC moving to Windows XP from Linux ... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496814 Matt :
said by factchecker :

said by Matt See Profile :

Do I really need to answer this?
Absolutely, because for someone who claims to be a network engineer in their site profile, calling Linux an "entirely irrelevant OS" stinks of not having a clue.
I really should update that.

I support 11 CentOS 5.1 servers ... with a few SuSe boxes thrown in, along with 3 Windows SQL boxes.

I'm definitely not a "Network Engineer."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496814 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:39:04 EDT Re: OLPC moving to Windows XP from Linux ... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496791 anon :
said by Matt See Profile :

Do I really need to answer this?
Absolutely, because for someone who claims to be a network engineer in their site profile, calling Linux an "entirely irrelevant OS" stinks of not having a clue.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496791 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:16:46 EDT Re: OLPC moving to Windows XP from Linux ... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496732 Matt :
said by niblifar See Profile :

said by Matt See Profile :

The sad part is, the OLPC interface was great.

The reality, having an OLPC with Windows XP will do more to advance 3rd world countries than some new laptop with an entirely irrelevant OS.
How and why is GNU/Linux entirely irrelevant? What does XP bring to third world countries that GNU/Linux does not?
Do I really need to answer this?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496732 Sat, 17 May 2008 02:14:30 EDT Re: OLPC moving to Windows XP from Linux ... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496460 niblifar :
said by Matt See Profile :

The sad part is, the OLPC interface was great.

The reality, having an OLPC with Windows XP will do more to advance 3rd world countries than some new laptop with an entirely irrelevant OS.
How and why is GNU/Linux entirely irrelevant? What does XP bring to third world countries that GNU/Linux does not?
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said by GOLFnSUN See Profile :

... and the programmer that created the XO's user interface and started his own company will try and sell his Sugar UI to other manufacturers like ASUS(maker of the Eee PC).

»www.news.com/8301-10784_3-994624···1_3-0-20
»wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page
The sad part is, the OLPC interface was great.

The reality, having an OLPC with Windows XP will do more to advance 3rd world countries than some new laptop with an entirely irrelevant OS.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20495823 Fri, 16 May 2008 21:47:29 EDT OLPC moving to Windows XP from Linux ... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20495728 GOLFnSUN : ... and the programmer that created the XO's user interface and started his own company will try and sell his Sugar UI to other manufacturers like ASUS(maker of the Eee PC).

»www.news.com/8301-10784_3-994624···1_3-0-20
»wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page
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