----- Original Message ----- From: "Bev Nicolson" bnicolson@operamail.com To: "Greg Thomas" Greg@TheThomasHome.co.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Ubuntu questions Sent this straight to Greg rather than the list. @'.'@
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:23:17 +010
<<Ready for someone who has no interest in the OS other than as a productivity tool.>>
But with definition, Windows wouldn't be ready either as it still needs the owner to read the manual. (Some would argue it isn't ready now but anyway...!) Next to the people on this list I know very little but I can make Ubuntu work so that's good enough for me.
Bev.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Thomas" Greg@TheThomasHome.co.uk To: ALUG main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Ubuntu questions Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:17:53 +0000
On 19/11/2007, Ian Thompson-Bell ianbell@ukfsn.org wrote:
Greg Thomas wrote:
o There's no obvious way to get out system information; Device Manager will tell me it's a PIII, but not the speed.
Hardware info gives this as you might expect.
It will tell me I've a PIII Coppermine CPU, but unless I'm missing something, there's no CPU speed.
o There are two package managers (Update Manager and Synaptic Package Manager). The former, at least, tells me when there are updates available. I don't know yet if it will include extra packages installed by the latter (e.g. Apache WWW Server).
Update manager will manage updates for everything installed by itself or synaptic.
Well, that's reassuring, at least.
o Disappointed that something as basic as NTP isn't installed by default. Even (spit) Windows has had this since NT4.
Yes, but Windows doesn't have a full blown set of Office apps etc etc etc as standard.
If you do by a Windows PC, it will often come with MS Works, which contains everything bar a presentation package.
So, is Ubuntu not quite as ready for the mainstream as I thought, or have I missed something?
Define mainstream.
Ready for someone who has no interest in the OS other than as a productivity tool.
Greg
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