Puppy is good.
I haven't tried it in a couple of years, though.
@Geek-9pm, You seem pretty interested in Open Source, are you running anything, any projects, etc
or
are you looking for something to get into?
I was into Linux many years ago. I did help people use in in Spanish. But now I have plenty to do just trying to remember which pills to take and when is my next doctor visit. Wait let me turn on the microphone. I hate typing.
Him all right, now I have the microphone on my head and I can blabber a bit.
For many here is my wife and I have engaged in voluntary missionary work in South America. But I have to admit I was not really very good at it because of my health issues. We were volunteers the just paid our own way, because I was in a position to do that. After being one in one country I came back to the United States and found that I could not get a job in my own field of broadcast engineering, so I started studying computer programming and computer technology. When I became certified as electronic technician I went to work for the Dysan Corporation done in Silicon Valley.
Well put long story short, I officially became a professional programmer and I did a similar language. And also worked on hardware at the same time. So I was sort of a multilingual multi-task super technician and junior programmer.
Many many years later we went to South America again and this time I'm took an interest in Linux and tried distributing it to people in South America. Of course that was not my principal reason for being in South America, it was to do with our missionary work. But I do like the concept of Linux. It is based on a very noble idea, that of sharing your work with others without expecting anything in return. I believe this is a very important, underlying principle that is often neglected.
Incidentally, the comparison between Linux and the commercial software corporations has been sometimes compared to a free market and a religious institution. Sounds rather ironic, doesn't it?
Think of a big free open marketplace for all kinds of people come together with their wares in goods and trade and exchange and are able to carry on a commercial business, but not to the point of exploitation. In a free-market exploitation and fraud is quickly identified. There are too many people watching you. So that has been used to describe the idea of the open source software movement. In contrast to this, the secret software developers have been compared to a priesthood that keeps their operations inside of a mystic cathedral. If you go into the cathedral you can ask questions if you want. But the answers you get are very limited and the priests will not tell you everything that you would like to know. And they expect you to contribute something significant for whatever help they can give you. That was used in an article written some years ago, I don't remember exactly who wrote it. But it was something about the Bazaar and the Cathedral.
Anyway, I no longer have the time and resources to do it much like attention to things that are not immediately necessary. But I do like getting on this forum and sharing whatever I know with others. At no charge. But then, I'm not sure if my advice is worth anything anyhow!.
I do believe that Linux, not Windows, will help with some of the communications need that people have in Third World countries. Oh, that's not politically correct anymore. Now they're called developing countries. In many developing countries there are still remote areas worst people live in the jungle and speak dialects that are not widely known in the rest of the world. Some of these people do not even have a written language, or if they do, it is not taught in the schools. With new advances in technology is now possible to have a very small DVD player that a missionary to take into a remote area and show the native people a presentation that was prepared in the language. With such audio and visual tools a lot can be done to educate the people of the world. Hopefully, technology and the open source movement and have some part in this.
But do not trust the big commercial companies to help out with this. Some while back somebody had an idea of putting laptops in the classrooms at $100 a pop and to try to get many countries to support this idea to help the children in the underdeveloped countries. Well is a good idea, and made use of open-source materials,
but guess who came along and said oh we can do it better but it'll cost $200 a pop instead.
Okay. End of my rant for today. But I still think Linux has a future, and Windows eventually will die. While I say this, I'm actually using a Windows system to dictate this. So far, the dictation software I use is only available in a Windows system.
