regeya
January 31st, 2005, 03:39 AM
Thanks a lot Ubuntu (and GNOME, OpenOffice.org, etc.); you made Linux boring.
I just spent an evening evaluating Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.org). Apart from some difficulties with what was apparently a default Debian MySQL config, and apart from Ubuntu sharing Debian's split-in-34-directions Ruby Standard Library, I was up and running in hardly any time at all. Worse, I was able to follow along, almost verbatim, with a Windows-centric tutorial!
Worse, when I decided to try to pull a table into OpenOffice Spreadsheet via unixODBC, I spent very little time at all trying to figure it out. Aside from having to write /etc/odbc.ini and /etc/odbcinst.ini files, I basically just had to connect OpenOffice to the data source, bring the data source pane up, and drag the table into a spreadsheet! A few seconds later and I had a properly-formatted spreadsheet to the boss's specifications! (Don't ask.)
Thanks a lot guys; keep this up and I might be expected to get some real work done. :lol:
Seriously, I'm very impressed by the quality of Ubuntu. It's taken very little work to turn my Ubuntu install into a workaholic AND multimedia powerhouse, and it's impressive to see it out of a GNOME-based, Freedesktop.org-standards-loving, Debian-derived distribution. :-D
I just spent an evening evaluating Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.org). Apart from some difficulties with what was apparently a default Debian MySQL config, and apart from Ubuntu sharing Debian's split-in-34-directions Ruby Standard Library, I was up and running in hardly any time at all. Worse, I was able to follow along, almost verbatim, with a Windows-centric tutorial!
Worse, when I decided to try to pull a table into OpenOffice Spreadsheet via unixODBC, I spent very little time at all trying to figure it out. Aside from having to write /etc/odbc.ini and /etc/odbcinst.ini files, I basically just had to connect OpenOffice to the data source, bring the data source pane up, and drag the table into a spreadsheet! A few seconds later and I had a properly-formatted spreadsheet to the boss's specifications! (Don't ask.)
Thanks a lot guys; keep this up and I might be expected to get some real work done. :lol:
Seriously, I'm very impressed by the quality of Ubuntu. It's taken very little work to turn my Ubuntu install into a workaholic AND multimedia powerhouse, and it's impressive to see it out of a GNOME-based, Freedesktop.org-standards-loving, Debian-derived distribution. :-D