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Jaco Swart is on permanent record as saying:
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:So I'm just wondering: is it worthwhile to stay with RH7.3, or should I=20
:go on to more recent distributions?
There are problems with that article - even with the same hardware there
were differences (setting up udma and different X drivers)so I wouldn't
conclude from it that Gentoo is slower than Debian or Mandrake.
However even if (and that's a big if IMHO) it is, that's not the main point of
Have you tried changing the window manager's own settings? The most
obnoxious sounds in RH 7.3 (Gnome) are not from Gnome but from Sawfish.
=Andrew
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:55, David Mann wrote:
BTW how does one disable the window event sounds in KDE? I'm talking
about the sounds for
Armstrong wrote:
personally i use slackware, its fast and lightweight, love the package
system because its so basic and never gets in the way. no one here seems
to mention it much though.
I use it as well. Just got Slackware 9.0 but found to my dismay that it
doesn't come with kernel source
David Mann wrote:
Armstrong wrote:
personally i use slackware, its fast and lightweight, love the package
system because its so basic and never gets in the way. no one here seems
to mention it much though.
I use it as well. Just got Slackware 9.0 but found to my dismay that it
doesn't
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:11, you wrote:
So I'm just wondering: is it worthwhile to stay with RH7.3,
No.
or should I go on to more recent distributions?
Without doubt!
If so, which one, and why? Opening a beehive here :-)
Sorry can't help myself. :-)
Settings Control Center Sound Multimedia System notifications
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:55, David Mann wrote:
Armstrong wrote:
personally i use slackware, its fast and lightweight, love the package
system because its so basic and never gets in the way. no one here seems
to mention it
While not convinced completely, I'll give RPM's another go :-) This apt thing
sounds promising...
There is something else that I have been thinking about lately.
Initially, my decision to install RH7.3 was made because a friend and a friend
of his was going to install it, and we thought it
I'd suggest Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 (if you want to wait a month or so for it to be
released)
It's quick and easy to use and install and uses urpmi for rpm which deal with
dependencies well.
chad
While not convinced completely, I'll give RPM's another go :-) This apt
thing sounds promising...
i compile pretty much everything from source these days
I used to do that too, up to a few years ago, when I decided I wasn't
going to waste my time any more when instead I could just tick a box in
the installer and whizzz goes the cd drive. Or dvd drive, as it's now.
And the software I install
re gentoo optimization
this was on /. a few days back:
http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=227
personally i use slackware, its fast and lightweight, love the package
system because its so basic and never gets in the way. no one here
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