[AuckLUG] Dell Preinstalls Ubuntu

[Bill Keesing]

On Thu, 10 May 2007 23:52:26 +1200, Justin Cook <justin at skull.co.nz> wrote:
> Critical tools like Adobe products aside, one of the major reasons I
> don't use a Linux desktop is the lack of proper support for things like
> Flash. Flash on linux is complete arse.

It seems to be a hell of a lot better than it was. And with Linux enjoying more of as market penetration I suspect it will get better, expecially with M$ announcing their product.
 
> With that in mind, it sounds like better flash support on Linux is
> getting to be more "definitely" than "maybe" and Microsoft have commited
> to eventually delivering Silverlight on both Linux and Mac. Because of
> the jump by Silverlight to support the CLR on foreign platforms, we'll
> likely see C# support (outside of mono) as well which makes me very
> happy. Developers will definitely take advantage of that portability if
> it does come about.

Anyone want to take part in a sweepstake on how long it is before people start creating large amounts of malware for Silverfish due to the inevitable bad M$ programming errors.
 
> It's a short hop from there for someone to develop XNA compatible
> libraries for linux, which is pretty much my ultimate ulterior motive.
> XNA is Microsoft's new carebear game libraries that sit above DirectX.

Hey, there is nothing wrong with carebears. They make great blaster and railgun fodder :)