Saturday, 9 July 2011 in England. This afternoon I was very enthusiastically telling staff in a large US owned stationary and computers chain store (with often too high prices), Staples, about the joys and benefits of using Linux, specifically Centos, over M$ Windoze. May I suggest that all us very grateful users of Centos make 6 copies of Centos 6.0 (either i386 or/and X64) and hand then out to friends, colleagues or strangers (unknown members of the public) who might be interested in trying Centos ? A modification of this idea could be to distribute "Live" versions of Centos that can run without altering a computer's hard disk(s). Centos is great - and I should have started using it years ago - so too is the utterly commendable efforts of the gallant and hard working volunteers who made this excellent experience possible for us to enjoy. Spreading the metaphorical 'word' in the form of a give-away CD or DVD will undoubtedly promote Centos and liberate more computer users from the costly and ghastly tyranny of M$ Windoze. In England one can not purchase a new computer from a chain store without first paying the compulsory Windoze tax even if one has no intention of using Micro$oft. Lets be proud of others world-wide achievement in making Centos 6.0 available to us and let us celibate their inspirational achievement by giving away some easy-to-duplicate LIVE CDs or a DVD set (2 disks) to those who would like to try Centos. Since the new version is Centos 6 then give away a minimum of 6 copies of a LIVE CD or 6 copies of a complete i386 or X64 distribution. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. 1 June 2010 Exclusively Centos & Gnome. Liberated from M$ Windoze.
Always Learning wrote:> May I suggest that all us very grateful users of Centos make 6 copies of > Centos 6.0 (either i386 or/and X64) and hand then out to friends, > colleagues or strangers (unknown members of the public) who might be > interested in trying Centos ?I already have several friends lined up for installation. But you should also be prepared to help them with install and primary setup, like adding third party repositories for audio/video codecs and similar. Ljubomir
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 02:25:12 PM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:> Most but not all. Windows users have only mp3 music, especially if they > have illegal copies like >90% of people in South East Europe. For those > you need non-free codecs.It's not free, but Fluendo has a zero-cost MP3 decoder for the gstreamer framework. www.fluendo.com
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 03:55:43 PM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:> Lamar Owen wrote: > > It's not free, but Fluendo has a zero-cost MP3 decoder for the gstreamer framework. www.fluendo.com > > But I assume it is still not part of the official repository since it is > not open source which means it can be only in third party repositories > which brings us back to the beginning:True enough. The point was simply that a *fully patent license legal* MP3 codec is out there, and at no cost. But there is some hand-holding involved, true enough.
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Always Learning <centos at u6.u22.net> wrote:> > May I suggest that all us very grateful users of Centos make 6 copies of > Centos 6.0 (either i386 or/and X64) and hand then out to friends, > colleagues or strangers (unknown members of the public) who might be > interested in trying Centos ? > >This is a great and noble idea but you're going to cause unwanted problems for some people. And often times those people would rather pay the 100pounds extra for Windows than have to try and actually become computer fundies. My mother, father, in-laws, some friends and many of our client could benefit from the cost saving that Linux has to offer. But they won't change over, no matter you convinsing your story about computer liberty is, cause Linux simmply cannot replave Windows. Not for them at least. Linux doesn't work for everyone. CentOS is great as a server OS, but it won't replace our accountant's Windows 7 desktop - the amount of technical compatibilies issues we're going to sit with is just not worth it. Don't use a jack hammer to drive in a nail :)> A modification of this idea could be to distribute "Live" versions of > Centos that can run without altering a computer's hard disk(s). > > Wasn't, or isn't there a Live distro already?> > -- > With best regards, > > Paul. > England, > EU. > > 1 June 2010 Exclusively Centos & Gnome. Liberated from M$ Windoze. > > > _______________________________________________ >-- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110709/6ffca364/attachment-0002.html>
Hoi Rudi,> CentOS is great as a server OS, but it won't replace our accountant's > Windows 7 desktop - the amount of technical compatibilies issues we're > going to sit with is just not worth it. > > Don't use a jack hammer to drive in a nail :)Centos 5.5 works well for my non-computer literate friends who use a computer for Facebook and web browsing. I use Centos 5.6 on servers, desktops, home server/desktop, laptop, notebook/netbook and would never willingly return to ghastly M$ Windoze. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. 1 June 2010 Exclusively Centos & Gnome. Liberated from M$ Windoze.
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 22:22 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:> > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Always Learning <centos at u6.u22.net> > wrote: > > May I suggest that all us very grateful users of Centos make 6 > copies of > Centos 6.0 (either i386 or/and X64) and hand then out to > friends, > colleagues or strangers (unknown members of the public) who > might be > interested in trying Centos ? > > > This is a great and noble idea but you're going to cause unwanted > problems for some people. And often times those people would rather > pay the 100pounds extra for Windows than have to try and actually > become computer fundies. > > My mother, father, in-laws, some friends and many of our client could > benefit from the cost saving that Linux has to offer. But they won't > change over, no matter you convinsing your story about computer > liberty is, cause Linux simmply cannot replave Windows. Not for them > at least. Linux doesn't work for everyone. > > CentOS is great as a server OS, but it won't replace our accountant's > Windows 7 desktop - the amount of technical compatibilies issues we're > going to sit with is just not worth it. > > Don't use a jack hammer to drive in a nail :)---- most people primarily use a computer for web and e-mail and thus an iPad is probably all that they need except when they want to print something (ignoring for the moment that Apple pretty much makes you use a computer to interface/put things on/take things off an iPad). What seems to be significant is people's perception of what a computer should be, do and how to use and thus Windows struggles to retain as much UI from the earlier versions with each new release in order to prevent mass defection. The reality is that applications are becoming more and more web based SAAS and as the costs of specific applications needed on specific platforms (ie, Quickbooks) rise, web based SAAS will replace them. The point is that for end users, the OS is eventually going to become irrelevant. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.