Comments on: Ubuntu And Your Money http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/2008/11/04/ubuntu-and-your-money/ kurt von finck's blog Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: michael http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/2008/11/04/ubuntu-and-your-money/comment-page-1/#comment-46 michael Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:55:06 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/?p=144#comment-46 I am looking forward to your session, and hoping to learn how to intelligently make my next laptop purchase, which I will probably do soon. I'd love to know how to both ensure that all the hardware is fully supported by Ubuntu, and also make sure I am aware of all my possible choices (ie outside of just the three laptops on http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/list/?release=8.10&category=Laptop). I also want to be supporting companies who are cooperative with open-source and doing good things for the world. So, I will be excited to hear what you have to say :) I am looking forward to your session, and hoping to learn how to intelligently make my next laptop purchase, which I will probably do soon. I’d love to know how to both ensure that all the hardware is fully supported by Ubuntu, and also make sure I am aware of all my possible choices (ie outside of just the three laptops on http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/list/?release=8.10&category=Laptop). I also want to be supporting companies who are cooperative with open-source and doing good things for the world. So, I will be excited to hear what you have to say :)

]]> By: jldugger http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/2008/11/04/ubuntu-and-your-money/comment-page-1/#comment-45 jldugger Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:26:24 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/?p=144#comment-45 I'd love to see advice on getting local banks to support GNUcash, or at least publish the right information. Probably not quite the direction you expected. Perhaps a question closer to the topic, then. Free software is valuable more for it's capacity for improvement than perfection; we hear about how bug such and such is a show stopper for some firm from adopting, or a regression is costing them substantial sums. How much and where should a person or firm wishing to fix a confirmed bug pay? I’d love to see advice on getting local banks to support GNUcash, or at least publish the right information. Probably not quite the direction you expected.

Perhaps a question closer to the topic, then. Free software is valuable more for it’s capacity for improvement than perfection; we hear about how bug such and such is a show stopper for some firm from adopting, or a regression is costing them substantial sums. How much and where should a person or firm wishing to fix a confirmed bug pay?

]]> By: Quigs http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/2008/11/04/ubuntu-and-your-money/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Quigs Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:05:59 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/?p=144#comment-44 Video Cards: Intel - great support but not great for games, great on legacy ATI - open source driver coming.. slowly, binary driver dropped support for many legacy cards, 3d on open source not good nVidia - nothing usable open source, their binary drivers are the best and they support practically every card they ever made and update them to recent kernels/Xorgs Video Cards:
Intel – great support but not great for games, great on legacy
ATI – open source driver coming.. slowly, binary driver dropped support for many legacy cards, 3d on open source not good
nVidia – nothing usable open source, their binary drivers are the best and they support practically every card they ever made and update them to recent kernels/Xorgs

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