Dear list-admin, sorry for the top post. Airtel Blackberry doesn't allow me to do this any other way. -gabin.
Rony, Dude! Were you involved in some seriously bad juju in a past life? I'm nowhere as clued in as Manoj appears to be but...
I just use an almost default Ubuntu Gutsy install on an HP lappy. Have been on it since Fiesty was released. Will move on to Hardy when they release Gutsy. My servers use the last Ubuntu LTS and some (I really don't know which) version of Fedora. We've been chugging along for at least the past couple of years without any major incident.
I'm really troubled by your experiences. Is it just an absurd series of coincidences? Or, should we refer your case to Richard Dawkins as a case of the seriously para-normal?
Normally, I wouldn't do this but....
May I suggest an intervention (in the proper American Fundamentalist Christian sense of the word)? Please let some lug'ers have a look at your setup. I'll even volunteer my very own personal time. I'm positive some others will also gladly volunteer. If we can convince you, I'm sure a major battle in the war for freedom can be declared as 'won!'
List out your requirements and we'll (or at leat, I'll ) set it up for you with a word of honour that your install will run without any hicouhgs for a mutually agreed pre-determined duration.
-gabin
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This too shall pass.
-----Original Message----- From: Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:16:02 To:"GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.glug-bom.org Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Introduction to Inkscape-Graphic Design and publishing with Free / Open Source Software
Gabin Kattukaran wrote:
I've had similar problems as well. There are so many things that most people take for granted about Windows. It normally means extra effort when you're using a system like linux.
Take ergonomics for example. When I used to Windows, The system ensured that I took the prescribed number of breaks from using the keyboard and mouse. This damn linux thing refuses to crash! I'm forced to work all these extra hours.
Thanks to Linux, I am forced to take breaks. Whenever I open a multi-page pdf file, it hangs into a runaway process and I am forced to reboot my computer and re-download the pdf. Windows is so boring, I simply double click on that file and it opens up without any fuss. I also find my Linux hanging when I open Firefox, OO and Thunderbird together. Windows just does not listen and opens them up side by side.
What about maintaining my presence on the Internet. Windows would make sure that all my information is already there without my even having to consent to it. Linux forces me to input my data where ever I need to.
I never had this problem in windows. I used an interactive firewall. In linux I cannot control what goes out of my system. The firewall works one way only.
Social Networking - It was so nice to have so many people working with me on the Windows box. Now I have to be content with being the only one working on my lappy and look to third party sites for meeting people.
Nope, not true in my case.
The bottom line is that windows and linux have their set of problems, so bashing Windows does not solve Linux problems.