Erik Huggers, a Microsoft guy at the BBC, takes a look at Fedora 9 as his first Linux desktop and finds it surprisingly good.
"I am glad that I got a chance to test drive Fedora and as a result have come to believe in the potential of Linux as a mainstream operating system.
As Ashley said in this post last year, the BBC does a lot of work with open standards already - but in the future we plan to do more.
We want to make iPlayer work on all operating systems including open source ones like Fedora and I am confident we'll make good progress on this before the end of the year."
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Member since:2006-01-10
I hear ya on the reboot thing. I recently upgraded my computer to a quad core from an AMD64 4000. I installed Windows XP x64 (which is an incredibly dumb name, since it's actually based on 2003 and x64 to a computer illiterate would be less than an x86).
The Asus motherboard P5Q came with a CD and had an option to automatically install all drivers. I thought that was a great idea, instead of having to click on each and then click next a billion times.
Oh what a pain that was, I kid you not, it rebooted about 6 times and only installed 4 drivers!
Yet one of the selling points of XP was "Doesn't have to reboot as often."
As I've always told people, there are only two reasons to reboot Linux, kernel updates and hardware failure.
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2005-07-06
I should have added that I'm buying Linux compatible hardware only. (From laptops to 16C servers...)
Never the less, out of the box, a modern Linux distribution does support far more hardware than XP and Windows 2K3. (I don't have enough experience with Vista and 2K8 to comment on them)
True.
Linux is far from being perfect.
... It just fit -my- needs better. (Let alone being far less annoying. I swear, another reboot and I would thrown [my employer's] laptop out of the window!)
- Gilboa
Edited 2008-06-27 23:45 UTC