Above the whining & shreiking of the trolls, Roy Schestowitz was heard
to say:
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> ____/ Tony(UK) on Monday 13 July 2009 14:48 : \____
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>> William Poaster wrote:
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>>> Above the whining & shreiking of the trolls, Tony(UK) was heard to
>>> say:
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>>> They're a Turkish Linux distribution.
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>> They are not. The *developers* are from Turkey.
>> Pardus supports 11 languages on the disk, more available after
>> installation. I can't speak Turkish, so how come I am running it here in
>> the UK?
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>> Like saying Ubuntu is African or from the USA - both of these statements
>> are wrong - Ubuntu is from the Isle of Man!
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> Technically it's funded by Turkey to serve Turkish people, AFAIK.
http://www.uekae.tubitak.gov.tr/home.do?ot=1&sid=578&pid=547
Why Pardus?
The following observations are revealed when we examine the place of the
operating systems in the area of information technology in our country, the
sectors they indirectly affect and their relations with the development
motion in general:
* An operating system is required on which critical applications can
work for the purpose of national defense, security and savings, which
supports an open and standard data structure, whose source code is open
as to allow for security monitoring and which can be deployed without
suffering any financial burden. * Redirecting the activities in Turkey
about the information technology toward the value added projects and
focusing on the high technology based on research and development
activities are required. * It is compulsory that the local data buildup
which is both prerequisite and the result of such buildup are ensured in
terms of both technological field and business processes. * It should be
preferred to determine the direction of the technological development, to
change the weight of differing areas and thus to be dominant on the
roadmap of the said operating system depending on the requirements of the
country.
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Then the personnel to become the core people of the team to create the
Linux distribution and to prepare a model architecture were selected and
hired. At this stage, the ways to make use of the information buildup and
experience as much as possible were searched considering the Linux history
of Turkey, existing and planned distributions, open source and Linux
society and their initiatives.
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Some of Hadron Quack's blunders & stupidity:
Surely you are not comparing the
non-existent Linux (at that time)
with Windows 98?
Hadron: Message-ID: <npk5rvzafy.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux as a desktop OS is pretty much doomed it would appear.
Too little too late.
Hadron: Message-ID: <fnd3jj$or8$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Google Earth on Linux runs through its own Wine installer. Unless they
have gone "native"
Hadron: Message-ID: <gu1v6l$dmo$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Getting high performance Video cards working is a damn sight
easier on XP because the installers are better.
Debian/Ubuntu are a pain in the hole - you need to recompile the latest
NVidia drivers using a set version of the compiler, for example, when
changing kernels.
Hadron: Message-ID: <c9rks4-gc7.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
WINE is and was an emulator.
Hadron - Message-ID: <h2a282$t95$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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