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orthogonal program
I thought that meant my Orthodondist  had to be present to use the program.

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Living Room / Re: Desktop Linux: The dream is dead
« on: October 22, 2010, 05:58 PM »
Perhaps - just don't expect miracles, the current slick and easy-to-use distributions are  heavier than the distributions 5 years ago... so if the hardware is really old, you'll probably still be limited to some of the "techier" and not-so-pretty but more lightweight distros.

256 K  ram   1.0  Celeron processor   came with XP installed

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Bvckup
« on: October 18, 2010, 01:28 PM »
I downloaded  Bvckup a couple of days ago and have set it to bvackup several folders - two to a HD partition and one to a network drive.  Seems to work flawlessly and
without taking up resources .  I like it !

Very nice and very handy

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Living Room / Re: Desktop Linux: The dream is dead
« on: October 18, 2010, 11:54 AM »
5 years is a long long time in Linux land. Things really have improved.
You mean I should try again ?  I still have the old computer.

i think the general public's indifference about which os it's using combined with the inertia of sticking with what you already know best has more to do with it. otherwise there wouldn't be half so many win xp holdouts.

The general public doesn't care what OS they are using as long as what they are using is easy for them to use and does what they want done.
My guess is the XP holdouts are more about cost of changing to Win 7 ( not Vista since Vista was universally panned )  since XP  does what they want and need.
So until ttheir XP system dies they will stick with it.

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Living Room / Re: Desktop Linux: The dream is dead
« on: October 18, 2010, 10:12 AM »
Over the past few years, modern Linux distributions such as Ubuntu have utterly transformed the open-source desktop user experience into something sleek and simple,
I disagree.  About 5 years a go I had an old desktop compute whose HD had died.  I put a new HD in and installed Ubuntu because of the buzz for Linux.  I wanted to learn and the best way was to install and play with it.  I found it much more difficult than Windows. Installing programs was I found particularly difficult.  I am fairly computer literate
( back in the late 70's I could program in TI Basic for our companies TI 990 ) but Ubuntu was just too much trouble for me, and I suspect, for the average user.

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