Highly OT, but the party's over

#11

On 11/07/09 15:45, Paul-B wrote:

Quote:

Alister wrote:

On 11/07/09 13:02, David Melville wrote:
KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.

XFCE!

Yes, even better.

a friend swears by openbox but I wont work correctly on my Aspire Once

with Fedora 11 XFCE respin.

#12

Mike wrote:

Quote:

Frank Adam wrote:
On 7 Nov 2009 15:45:15 GMT, "Paul-B" <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote:

David Melville wrote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.
KDE for me.

XPSP3 for me.

Btw Paul, how is Windows 7 ? I know you've given it a workout, so any
last comments ? Or rights ?

Just to butt in, i've been using 7 for about 3 months now. Best upgrade
my latop has ever had (apart from the dual boot Ubuntu i've installed
since.) So much lighter and quicker than Vista.

If I might chime in too ... been running it for almost 18 months and all
the faults with Vista went away and my laptop hasn't looked back, and
it's not a very powerful laptop at that.

Going to install the RTM on my desktop and laptop whenever I get a spare
weekend to make sure everything is backed up fully and get all the
applications back together.

#13

martin <usenet (AT) etiqa (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Quote:

Mike wrote:
Frank Adam wrote:
On 7 Nov 2009 15:45:15 GMT, "Paul-B" <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote:

David Melville wrote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.
KDE for me.

XPSP3 for me.

Btw Paul, how is Windows 7 ? I know you've given it a workout, so any
last comments ? Or rights ?

Just to butt in, i've been using 7 for about 3 months now. Best upgrade
my latop has ever had (apart from the dual boot Ubuntu i've installed
since.) So much lighter and quicker than Vista.

If I might chime in too ... been running it for almost 18 months and all
the faults with Vista went away and my laptop hasn't looked back, and
it's not a very powerful laptop at that.

Going to install the RTM on my desktop and laptop whenever I get a spare
weekend to make sure everything is backed up fully and get all the
applications back together.

Out of interest, would anyone care to hasard a guess as to whether
Windows 7 will run on my 5 year old Compaq Presario laptop? I'm running
XP on it OK - a little slowly but quite bearable - never went to Vista,
but I'd like to give 7 a shot. I tried the beta in Parallels on the Mac,
and found it quite snappy and pleasant.

Laptop specs (very modest) : 2Ghz Intel 4m / 1Gb RAM / 160Gb HD / ATI
onboard video 64mb

Actually, if the damned Adobe Creative Suite were only available on
Linux, I'd ditch Win altogether and install Ubuntu on it like a shot.
It's so much lighter on resources than XP, that it'd be like getting a
new laptop. Adobe's absence is actually the only thing preventing me
from doing that. <sigh>
--
ric

ric at pixelligence dot com

#14

ric zito wrote:

Quote:

martin <usenet (AT) etiqa (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Mike wrote:
Frank Adam wrote:
On 7 Nov 2009 15:45:15 GMT, "Paul-B" <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote:

David Melville wrote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.
KDE for me.

XPSP3 for me.

Btw Paul, how is Windows 7 ? I know you've given it a workout, so any
last comments ? Or rights ?

Just to butt in, i've been using 7 for about 3 months now. Best upgrade
my latop has ever had (apart from the dual boot Ubuntu i've installed
since.) So much lighter and quicker than Vista.
If I might chime in too ... been running it for almost 18 months and all
the faults with Vista went away and my laptop hasn't looked back, and
it's not a very powerful laptop at that.

Going to install the RTM on my desktop and laptop whenever I get a spare
weekend to make sure everything is backed up fully and get all the
applications back together.

Out of interest, would anyone care to hasard a guess as to whether
Windows 7 will run on my 5 year old Compaq Presario laptop? I'm running
XP on it OK - a little slowly but quite bearable - never went to Vista,
but I'd like to give 7 a shot. I tried the beta in Parallels on the Mac,
and found it quite snappy and pleasant.

Laptop specs (very modest) : 2Ghz Intel 4m / 1Gb RAM / 160Gb HD / ATI
onboard video 64mb

I'd stick with XP. Sounds like your machine should run XP just fine, Win
7 really does need a little more than 1G RAM, although my laptop only
has a gig (but dual core). Reinstall XP (if you have the apps discs) and
see how it feels after that.

My sister has a single core pentium and 1G RAM and it just about runs
Vista if you're patient with boot up. So Win 7 wouldn't be ruled out.
Sorry it's a bit of a non-answer, you're on the border line.

Take a ghost image of current setup (download free trial), borrow a copy
of Win 7 and see how it feels. You can install it without needing a
licence key to try it out. Only way I'm afraid. Sorry.

Quote:

Actually, if the damned Adobe Creative Suite were only available on
Linux, I'd ditch Win altogether and install Ubuntu on it like a shot.
It's so much lighter on resources than XP, that it'd be like getting a
new laptop. Adobe's absence is actually the only thing preventing me
from doing that. <sigh

#15

i use ubuntu which i think is gnome

have tried suse/red hat etc

prefer ubuntu

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:02:46 +1100, "David Melville"
<davidmelville (AT) exemail (DOT) com.au> wrote:

Quote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.

#16

David Melville wrote:

Quote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.

Neither. Stop wasting your time and install a proper OS like Windows 7.

#17

"ric zito" <address (AT) in (DOT) sig> wrote

Quote:

martin <usenet (AT) etiqa (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Mike wrote:
Frank Adam wrote:
On 7 Nov 2009 15:45:15 GMT, "Paul-B" <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote:

David Melville wrote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.
KDE for me.

XPSP3 for me.

Btw Paul, how is Windows 7 ? I know you've given it a workout, so any
last comments ? Or rights ?

Just to butt in, i've been using 7 for about 3 months now. Best upgrade
my latop has ever had (apart from the dual boot Ubuntu i've installed
since.) So much lighter and quicker than Vista.

If I might chime in too ... been running it for almost 18 months and all
the faults with Vista went away and my laptop hasn't looked back, and
it's not a very powerful laptop at that.

Going to install the RTM on my desktop and laptop whenever I get a spare
weekend to make sure everything is backed up fully and get all the
applications back together.

Out of interest, would anyone care to hasard a guess as to whether
Windows 7 will run on my 5 year old Compaq Presario laptop? I'm running
XP on it OK - a little slowly but quite bearable - never went to Vista,
but I'd like to give 7 a shot. I tried the beta in Parallels on the Mac,
and found it quite snappy and pleasant.

Laptop specs (very modest) : 2Ghz Intel 4m / 1Gb RAM / 160Gb HD / ATI
onboard video 64mb

Actually, if the damned Adobe Creative Suite were only available on
Linux, I'd ditch Win altogether and install Ubuntu on it like a shot.
It's so much lighter on resources than XP, that it'd be like getting a
new laptop. Adobe's absence is actually the only thing preventing me
from doing that. <sigh

Try this upgrade advisor

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15&displayLang=en

#18

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:46:17 +1100, ric zito <address (AT) in (DOT) sig> wrote:

Quote:

martin <usenet (AT) etiqa (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Mike wrote:
Frank Adam wrote:
On 7 Nov 2009 15:45:15 GMT, "Paul-B" <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote:

David Melville wrote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.
KDE for me.

XPSP3 for me.

Btw Paul, how is Windows 7 ? I know you've given it a workout, so any
last comments ? Or rights ?

Just to butt in, i've been using 7 for about 3 months now. Best
upgrade
my latop has ever had (apart from the dual boot Ubuntu i've installed
since.) So much lighter and quicker than Vista.

If I might chime in too ... been running it for almost 18 months and all
the faults with Vista went away and my laptop hasn't looked back, and
it's not a very powerful laptop at that.

Going to install the RTM on my desktop and laptop whenever I get a spare
weekend to make sure everything is backed up fully and get all the
applications back together.

Out of interest, would anyone care to hasard a guess as to whether
Windows 7 will run on my 5 year old Compaq Presario laptop? I'm running
XP on it OK - a little slowly but quite bearable - never went to Vista,
but I'd like to give 7 a shot. I tried the beta in Parallels on the Mac,
and found it quite snappy and pleasant.

Laptop specs (very modest) : 2Ghz Intel 4m / 1Gb RAM / 160Gb HD / ATI
onboard video 64mb

Actually, if the damned Adobe Creative Suite were only available on
Linux, I'd ditch Win altogether and install Ubuntu on it like a shot.
It's so much lighter on resources than XP, that it'd be like getting a
new laptop. Adobe's absence is actually the only thing preventing me
from doing that. <sigh

<Grrrrrrrrrowwwwlllll>
Start your /own/ OT thread, zito.

--
Cheers,
Dave

Don't touch me unless you love me.

#19

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:07:40 +1100, Mike <none (AT) none (DOT) none> wrote:

Quote:

David Melville wrote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.

Neither. Stop wasting your time and install a proper OS like Windows 7.

Hmmmmmm.

An OS I (should) pay for, loaded with software I (should) pay for, or....

A free OS that works just as well, is more customizable, faster, boots and
shuts down in a flash, small, with freely available software which is
every bit the replacement for all the other (ostensibly paid-for) software
I used under my (ostensibly paid-for) OS.

Tough decision.

I've been loving it since day 2.
--
Cheers,
Dave

Don't touch me unless you love me.

#20

On 11/08/09 02:57, David Melville wrote:

Quote:

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:07:40 +1100, Mike <none (AT) none (DOT) none> wrote:

David Melville wrote:

KDE or GNOME ?

Thank you.

Neither. Stop wasting your time and install a proper OS like Windows 7.

Hmmmmmm.

An OS I (should) pay for, loaded with software I (should) pay for, or....

A free OS that works just as well, is more customizable, faster, boots
and shuts down in a flash, small, with freely available software which
is every bit the replacement for all the other (ostensibly paid-for)
software I used under my (ostensibly paid-for) OS.

Tough decision.

I've been loving it since day 2.
don't forget security.

Anti Virus - Don't need any
Firewall - Part of the system Kernel not an afterthought.
Most of you are currently using linux without realising it. There is a
v.good chance that is what your news server is running & most web
servers are Linux or BSD