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>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. If you were a real hardcore linuxoid, you'd toss the graphic UI entirely. Lynx should be enough for any surfer! ;) >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 RPMs seem to be quite easy to use. I installed some RPM once, and it wasn't harder than installing stuff on Windows. (Of course you had to have enough user privileges to do installations, but I already knew _that_... ;) >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. Aha, ok. One thing that's rather strange to a newbie linuxphile @ rmpfind.net is the huge amount of libraries you should know about. When I download an RPM, I have to check through dozens of other files and maybe download them too. Isn't there any "all needed libraries included" choice somewhere? Would be a bit easier. > > 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". Yeah, right... ;) I meant that, for example, Windows and Mac OS didn't have native PPP support originally. And originally, on Windows, to connect to internet with a fast line, you used a third party software called "Trumpet". Windows itself didn't natively have tcp/ip support. And when the native PPP control panel came to Mac, it was so buggy, you usually used a third party alternative instead (FreePPP or some other)... >Nowadays they're no longer afraid of the gov't and they try to put >EVERYTHING in. Yeah! But customers, too, demand more and more stuff from the OS itself nowadays. From the OS-maker point of view, you can't compete with Windows, if your alternative OS choice doesn't ship with a browser, multimedia player, easy native internet connectivity helper apps, some sort of word processor, basic plugins for the browser, etc, etc, etc... Even if you _could_ supply everything listed, you can't compete with Microsoft unless you have steady consumer-base and unique design (Apple), or unless everything listed is free (Linux). No wonder why BeOS lost. They concentrated in core OS technology in times, when the most important thing is, what's _bundled_ with OS.... BTW, Palm didn't give (or sell) Be source code to BeUnited. Be people have started to concentrate their forces in making OpenBeOS. More info here: http://www.beunited.org/ ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Less is moo" -- The Holy Mad Cow
