On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:46:27 -0800, someone pretending to be royschestowitz wrote:


> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37742
>
> "Quite an impressive start for a piece of free software, I think you'll
> agree. But (and you just knew there was a 'but' coming, didn't you?) then
> the wheels started to come off. Despite it being the latest ISO image I
> could find, the first thing the system did when it saw the Web was to
> download 104 updates - roughly 60 per cent more than a new install of
> Windows XP SP2 asks for."

Ubuntu isn't just a bare OS like Windows. The basic install includes
hundreds of top GUI applications that are also updated at the same time as
the kernel. If the author had bothered to look at the updates, he'd have
found that nearly all were for those applications.

> "Well, I've only been playing with computers since 1972 and I couldn't
> make it work. Linux can see the Windows boxes and vice versa, but any
> attempt to access files is met with a login dialogue box that refuses
> any username and password I enter. Now my learned friends tell me I
> should be using something called Wine. I've been a heavy user of wine
> for many years and it certainly helped relax me but did absolutely
> nothing for my connectivity dilemma."

Many different operating systems that have no trouble at all talking to
each other over a network, hit a brick wall when it comes to Windows.
Instead of blaming them, blame Microsoft for deliberately violating widely
accepted networking standards and then refusing to fully document their
own custom API's in an attempt to thwart OS competition.