Re: Making linux more user friendly

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:53:34 +0200

Brian white wrote:

> I sent my relatives halfway across the world a webcam and i cannot
> communicate with them through it because i use linux.

CUSeeMe has worked fine in the *nix world for a long time, so your statement
is quite wrong IMHO.

> That is a stupid
> situation. As long as linux has this glaring hole in its armour, it will
> never be accepted by young people as a real operating system.

My niece switched over to linux, as she got damn tired of blueescreens and
viruses, the only thing she misses is that Sims don't work (thinking of
getting the special Transgamings version for her).

> I worked with young guys half my age and they laughed at my unix yahoo
> messanger (no webcam support) and my kopete (no webcam support) typing to
> their msn (until msn changed protocols)
> Thats just the way it is. Build IM with webcam for linux of forget the
> desktop.

Good that you have voluntary to write one, we all will wait for you to finish
it as soon as possible.

  //Just another enduser

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