[Buddha-l] Is this guy an, er, budding bodhisattva of IT?

[jkirk]

Love this: "If you are feeling masochistic, you can choose Windows. If
you just want everything to work without crashing, you'll choose Linux."

Does Ubuntu also have an email progam like Outlook?
It has started crashing regularly for me, even though thank goodness the 
message I try to send and gets crashed still gets sent. Go figure. (Go 
Figure is a new Buddhist mantra designed to get one's attention and start 
the thinking, as opposed to the somnolence, process going, while pretending 
to be ironic.)


"It felt as liberating as the day I decided to become a vegan. The 
difference is,
> I stuck with Linux and gave up veganism after about six months."  Sounds 
> like
becoming vegan began when you installed Windows?

"If you work it > right, you can spend so much time tweaking all your 
desktop environments that > you never use your computer to do any real 
work." Yes, that's definitely a Peril of Pauline and one to be avoided. 
(Buddhist slant:) Life will be more wholesome now that Spring is here: 
planting the garden, changing the garden, weeding the garden, setting out 
new plants, sowing the poppy seeds, digging it, on and on.

"Last I heard, Dick Cheney was lagging behind in the race to be > recognized 
as most congenial Bodhisattva of the 21st Century." Bodhisattva? more like 
the incarnation of Devadatta.


Cheers,
Joanna
==============================
Richard wrote:
 >
> I have been using Linux since 1998 and Ubuntu since last summer. Ubuntu, 
> which
> is based on Debian but is much easier to install and maintain, is in my 
> view
> by far the best distribution of Linux, and Linux is the best operating 
> system
> in the entire Sahaloka. (I can't speak of the Pure Lands, but I'm fairly
> confident Amitabha is an Ubuntu buddha.) Ubuntu has excellent 
> documentation
> and an excellent array of utiltiies that makes updating it and maintaining 
> it
> easy; one no longer has to be a geek to use Linux. Linux has an 
> open-source
> counterpart of just about every program that runs on Windows. With a bit 
> of
> work you can even run many Windows programs under Linux by using a Windows
> emulation system called Wine (which allegedly stands for Windows is not
> everything).
>
> You can get Ubuntu by downloading it from their website or by ordering a 
> free
> DVD, which the Ubuntu elves will mail to you for free. It costs absolutely
> nothing to try it out. the DVD is set up so that you can run Ubuntu live
> (right off the DVD) without committing yourself to installing it. This 
> allows
> you to work with it and get a feel for it before taking the plunge. If you 
> do
> decide to install it, you can set your computer up as a dual boot system.
> This means when you boot up, the boot loader asks you whether you want to 
> run
> Linux or Windows. If you are feeling masochistic, you can choose Windows. 
> If
> you just want everything to work without crashing, you'll choose Linux. I 
> ran
> a dual boot computer for about two years but eventually noticed I was 
> never
> booting up Windows any more, so I finally just deleted the damn thing. It
> felt as liberating as the day I decided to become a vegan. The difference 
> is,
> I stuck with Linux and gave up veganism after about six months.
>
> Now that you have decided to switch to Ubuntu Linux, the website is
> www.ubuntulinux.org . Standard Ubuntu comes with the Gnome desktop
> environment, which has all kinds of bells and whistles. I personally 
> prefer
> KDE to Gnome; you can get Ubuntu with KDE at www.kubuntu.org/. 
> Alternatively,
> you can get Ubuntu with the light and efficient Xfce desktop environment
> (recommended for smaller and older computers, because it has a smaller
> footprint) from www.xubuntu.org. If you have a capacious computer and like
> variety, of course, you can set Ubuntu up with up to a dozen desktop
> environments and just choose the one that fits your mood. If you work it
> right, you can spend so much time tweaking all your desktop environments 
> that
> you never use your computer to do any real work.
>
> In this year's prestigious Bodhisattva Idol competitions, Ubuntu's 
> founder,
> Mark Shuttleworth, is rumored to be a leading candidate. Bill Gates 
> dropped
> out of the bodhisattva race about twenty-five years ago, although his
> generous charitable contributions in recent years may well put him back in
> the running. Last I heard, Dick Cheney was lagging behind in the race to 
> be
> recognized as most congenial Bodhisattva of the 21st Century.
>
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
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