Posts by Gordon

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth praises Windows 7, welcomes fight

The guy has some nerve

So... according to this guy, is it not fair for Microsoft to lower its prices to compete?

Here's news to you, Mr. Spaceman: it is you who is compiting on price, not quality. You are an hypocrite.

Shuttleworth on Ubuntu: It ain't about the money

More laughs

"I have been talking about Open Source in general the entire time, I am the one advocating best of breed" regardless of source."

I do that too. Linux is ok for servers and other markets. Have I ever denied that? But we're talking about desktop Linux here. We're talking about Ubuntu. We're talking about a guy who admits he has not the slightest clue about how to make money with desktop Linux. THAT is reality. Face it if you want.

"Ferraris only have a small market penetration, does that make them worse the Fords? "

That's a common freetarded argument. Do you know a number I can call to have my new shiny Ferrary sent home for free? I thought not.

Changing subjects again?

"The world may not be using Ubuntu, but it most certainly using Linux (or Unix) and Open Source."

I know that. But we are not discussing supercomputers, servers, or embedded systems here, are we?

As a said, an amazing ability to distort and change subjects.

Keep up the fun.

"Terribly complicated for someone like Gordon though admittedly."

It looked quite complicated for Ubuntu Dappers too. Maybe you could enlighten them, freetard. Keep distorting the truth and denying reality. It has worked so well for you in the past that the world is now using Ubuntu. Oh, wait.

Amazing guys

"I bet an install on Win2k would take more *clicks* than that to open IE, download the executable, launch it, run through the installer..."

Maybe. But is your distribution eight years old? :-)

You feetards are soooo funny. You have an amazing ability to miss the point , change the subject and ignore the facts. It is truly worth of psychological study.

Attack of the freetards

"I've never had to install firefox, because it ships with seemingly every distribution I've used. But, if I had to...

sudo apt-get install firefox"

LOL. Like I said, you've no idea what you are talking about. But it's so easy to make fun of your lies and your freetarded ways. As easy as this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=847484&page=3

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How to Run Firefox 3 on Ubuntu Edgy, Feisty or Dapper

It works. Here's the versions of the libraries I used (in the correct order):

glib-2.18.1

pixman-0.12.0 (May screws up the environmental varables ... not sure)

cairo-1.8.0

pango-1.20.5

atk-1.22.0

gtk+-2.12.12 (2.14.3 would not build)

Pixman and GTK+ gave me some problems.

Code:

mkdir -p ~/firefox/src

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/firefox/lib

export LDFLAGS=-L${HOME}/firefox/lib

export CPPFLAGS=-I${HOME}/firefox/include

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${HOME}/firefox/lib/pkgconfig/

export CFLAGS=-I${HOME}/firefox/include

cd ~/firefox

tar xvjf ~/firefox-3.0.3.tar.bz2

cd ~/firefox/src

cd (package dir)

./configure --prefix=$HOME/firefox

make

make install

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/firefox/lib ~/firefox/firefox/firefox

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Really easy! That's Linux for human beings, mind you. For freetarded human beings.

But hey, keep trying. I'm having fun... and unlike you, I'm not telling lies. I repeat again: try it yourselves.

More expected freetardism

"You can install Firefox IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY on Linux."

Bullshit. Seems like you haven't actually tried it. Try it. It doesn't have to be in a 2000's distribution. Try Ubuntu Dapper from 2006. Good luck.

"your implication that Linux isn't on 99% of desktops would be incorrect in any case."

0.91% actually. Eat some facts:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10

Yeah, the year of the linux desktop is coming. Again.

One more thing for the freetard who claimed Windows 2000 was released in 1997. LOL! That was a good one. Get your facts straight. Oh, right, if you cared about facts you wouldn't be a freetard. But it's ok. No one expects better from you.

Keep your head on the sand, it's warm there.

"There is no single defined platform in the Closed Source world either. I guess that's why no ISV takes it seriously. Sheesh."

Sure. That's why you can install Firefox 3 on Windows 2000. Click, click. Try the same on any Linux distribution around that year. Good luck with that.

"Open Source is everywhere. "

Not on my desktop. It's not on the desktop of 99% of computing world, actually. And the rest are zealots and religious nuts who hate Microsoft so much they simply can't see how shitty and useless desktop Linux is.

Freetards will never learn. Even when commenting on an article on which their beloved Ubuntu leader candidly admits he has no chance in hell to make money with the shit he produces. At least he has his feet on the ground: you can't make money on something so lousy nobody wants for free.

Whatever

No. I expect my OS to last at least a couple of years. And I expect it to be a platform that third parties can actually target. You know, that little thing called a software platform. That thing that freetards can't actually get through their heads. Thus, well deserved 1% market share.

@Glen

"I use Fedora and Ubuntu pretty extensively, and I can't recall the last time I compiled anything other than my own code."

It doesn't surprise me, but you still don't understand. I'm not talking about end users. I'm talking about developers. Their too busy recompiling packages time and again like trained monkeys to actually develop something useful.

"Having all programs available through the system's installer means that users can't be duped into installing random trojan packages"

No, it means ever upgrading your system so you can have new applications because there is no defined platform. And it means no ISV can target your system and take it seriously.

Educate yourself: read the Autopackage FAQ. It was the only thing those guys got right.

@Generic Freetard

" *nix packages are not compatible across all current *nix flavours, but why should they be? "

You are right. Who cares about making your OS actually usable if you can have awesome fun recompiling the same packages every 6 months? Talk about productivity!

Enjoy your fragmented, chaotic, crappy, non-working open system. The rest of the world will keep ignoring it... and you will keep crying it's all Microsoft's fault. Same as ever.

King of freetards have spoken

Reading freetards brag about standards is soooo funny. They can't even agree on a standardized package format. Fix your own shit before telling others what to do.

" Giving away software for free simply puts paid IT workers out of work."

Don't worry dude. That only happens if what you're doing is even crappier than what freetards are doing. That is a hard feat, and if that happens, you probably deserve to be out of business.

Dell moves 40,000 Ubuntu PCs

Soon Dell will realise their error

Linux fanboys are actually few, but they scream and whine a lot like if they were ten thousand millions. I wonder what was Dell thinking. Face it guys... Linux on the desktop still sucks badly.