Does filepro runs on Ubuntu ?

[Enrique Arredondo]

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Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:09 AM
Subject: RE: Does filepro runs on Ubuntu ?


> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> |[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
> |Enrique Arredondo
> |Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:11 PM
> |To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> |Subject: Re: Does filepro runs on Ubuntu ?
> |
> |It's quite fascinating the simple way it installs
> |(using 1 installation CD) and works out of the box compared to
> |RH or suse.
> |
> ---------------------------
>
> We've placed SuSE 9.3 Pro on several 'hand-built' boxes, varying hardware
> and peripherals and all worked flawlessly -out of the box-.  This includes
> NVidia/ATI/S3 video, wireless NIC's from Linksys, some crazy on-board 
> sound
> chips, etc.  For a real-world comparison I got this SuSE distro to install
> easier than on W2KPro.  The defaults will install from just the first CD.
> Never once on any of these machines did I have to go to a command line
> prompt.
>
> These are office desktops with OOo, Evolution and Firefox - everything a
> person needs to do their daily job.  Why in the world anyone would pay for
> MS XP licenses at twice the cost is beyond me.  I even changed the menu 
> and
> desktop icons for word processor, spreadsheet, e'mail and internet to look
> like MS products and our folks didn't even know the difference!
>
> Sorry, I had to make this distinction since you mentioned 'compared to RH 
> or
> suse'.  Your results may vary - but not likely. :)
>
> -MikeR
>

Absolutely, I was talking about 3 cd's versus 1 cd. But RH and suse 
installations are flawless, they detect all SCSI cards right away without 
user intervention. Win xP or 2003 server on the other hand are a joke.