[Tfug] ubuntu

[Judd Pickell]

Not sure that it is impractical.. Our house looks like a wall of
terminals and most offices I worked in were basically overly bulky
terminals (as users were not allowed to make them their own). Variety
for the masses comes in their PDAs, iPods, cell phones, etc. But pure
computer use? nah.. I see it being very much dumb terminal usage
atleast for the average user. Even if that terminal is a walk around
tablet like I have seen at a few doctor's offices. They will be using
to set the tv/movie/music station and doing a quick check of their
email before climbing into the shower and heading off to work. Or in
the case of house wives, carrying it into the kitchen and doing the
quick shopping list, then picking up their blackberry and texting
their friends if they want to go shopping or swapping schedules.

If the masses really cared about having the variety of uses you are
talking of, laptops (particularly the small ones) would rule the day.
As it is Most common unwashed masses are using desktops, not laptops.
Although the numbers are getting there to support a possible split,
however those numbers don't really take into account how many are
actually owning that laptop due to work, or for fun at home.

How long have you been in this industry? Your understandings and
conclusions seem to lack a more rounded understanding of the working
world. I have put aside responding many times just chalking things up
to the "you aren't in the thick of it" so that I don't feel annoyed,
but this is getting beyond silly. Can you do more than state an
opinion please? Perhaps explain how you got to the conclusions you are
coming to? Your responses at time feel almost like they are intended
to invoke this type of response from those 'old-timers' that make a
living working in the environment you claim to be unreasonably hard to
use.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:33 AM,  <sitkaa at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Wubi looks to dispel many problems having to do with linux's first bug hurdle.
>  Perhaps this will be a major catalyst to get things moving the Ubuntu way. And
>  8.1 is supposed to focus on mobile computing. I s'pose there is always more to
>  look for.
>
>  It would be nice to see 20 'pre-build's for the top 20 or so laptops
>  being used.
>  Perhaps with Wubi and/or continued simplification of the configuration
>  process,
>  such a thing would be moot.
>
>  Computers are part of the infocom system that holds society together.
>  They will
>  be used in a wide variety of ways, from home users to users who have no homes.
>  IMO, the idea of a computerless population that only uses ubiquitous terminals
>  is just not practical. People are just far too resourceful to put up
>  with that.
>
>
>
>
>  Quoting Eric Christian <ericdanc at alice-dsl.net>:
>
>  > /Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:17:05 -0700
>  > From: Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com>
>  > Subject: Re: [Tfug] ubuntu
>  > To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>  > Message-ID: <480FC371.6060804 at britishideas.com>
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>  > Huh? What does the proliferation and decentralization of information on
>  > the internet have to do with linux? I guess I missed something...
>  >
>  > /Whatever happened to the idea of the no-computer home user - ultimate
>  > decentralization, if you will? One just has a terminal or work station
>  > hooked up to an ISP and somewhere (Unix-, what else?) servers provide
>  > services.
>  > Eric
>  >
>  >
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