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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Jarmo Lundgren:
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> Is redhat the most common distro nowadays?
I do believe so !
> And, btw, are there any
> web-related differences between KDE and Gnome?
NO idea. But there's bugs in Gnome, so I have to run KDE
even tho it's the ugliest damn thing I've seen in a long time.
> But, but, but... I'd rather take the one that is rather painless to install
> than the one which needs expert knowledge from the very beginning... ;)
I'd say that in general, plan to rely on RPM's not DEB's or whatever,
bcos RPM's are the most common way for people to package up their stuff.
And you have cool RPM-oriented resources like Rufus
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/
When I'm looking for a piece of software, I always check the Rufus
index-by-name http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ByName.html
It's a bit dangerous tho to mix your distros, they all have built-in
assumptions, so when you grab stuff offa Rufus, try to stick to RPM's
built on -- and for -- _your_ distro.
> Yeah.... the term "operating system" has a bit different meaning today
> in everyday talk than it used to be. Nowadays an OS is supposed to handle
> everything from file management to entertainment (not to mention integrated
> internet surfing). Only a couple of years ago it was just there to launch
> the programs and handle the files on your hard disk.
Um, you're thinking of MS-DOS. It was more properly termed a "program loader".
> Anything else was third party stuff.
In the old days MS was careful not to include everything, so that there could
be third-party tools "out there". Stuff like Stacker, 4DOS, and so on.
Nowadays they're no longer afraid of the gov't and they try to put EVERYTHING in.
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