[odf-discuss] Linspire's MOOX initiatives

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Christian Einfeldt wrote:
>> At the same time, I don't think that I am interested in encouraging 
>> widespread adoption of this broken anti-interoperability 
>> interoperability, and I am planning on scaling back my advocacy for 
>> Linspire.
> 
> Ask Jean about Ubuntu. Just today she was telling me about how great and 
> newbie-friendly the latest version is. And Shuttleworth has said that 
> Canonical will not sign any patent deal with MS. Ubuntu is also Debian 
> based, and it has a GUI program for installing applications that is 
> probably not much more difficult than CNR.

Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) rocks! So many things that I had to learn how to do 
manually to get earlier versions of Ubuntu set up now just happen, or the 
tools are built in and only need at most a bit of configuration. Mind you, 
one of the trickier ones (dual monitor setup) was dead easy because my new 
laptop has an nVidia card and the monitor setup is in the nVidia settings. 
Getting the DVD player working (using VLC) was a bit more complicated, 
because the Ubuntu repositories don't contain two essential bits of 
software (for legal reasons), but the instructions for where to get them 
and how to install them were there.

Here is part of what I wrote to Daniel: I'm delighted to report that 
Ubuntu's installation from the desktop CD has improved with each release. 
It was a good distro for newbies before, but now it's even better -- I feel 
much more confident now that I can hand a CD to someone (except the totally 
clueless) and they would be able to install it successfully without assistance.

--Jean