On Ray Olszewski's friendly remarks of: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:22:50 -0700
[REM: Sorry to have used the personal e-dress: this is because the list's
header does carry the list address only somewhare long awy on the From:
or To: lines - I have to paste it in each time manually. If tired one
forgets.
Another drag is that there's no identifying prefix in the Subject: line
which would, as with other lists, easily distinguish these listmails
from others. Which in turn is a drag for sorting out spam; if the rest
of the Subject: line is too general/nothingsaying and there's no clue
from either the From:, To:, or Return-To: lines I have to look at the
full mail before deciding if it's a spam...]
That Vuescan is not only a scanner driver but has its own GUI and pixel
presentation of output. Thus it needs X.
I prefer textmode generally, and do almost all work that way so I
wouldn't need X except for very specific tasks (picture retrieval and
treatment, and sound editing; _very_ rarely using a pseudo-"graphical"
browser for those nasty net places where there's no way to get using the
Lynx.
I'll try how far I get with the bare Xterm - thanks Lawson - before
making more comments.
Perhaps that much off the cuff: I must have done a three-digit number of
Linux installs in the last two years and the X configuration is always a
trickish step in it. The newest "official" Debian releass ("3.0") is a
step back in that respect. It starts with the presumption that a (new)
user would know perfectly the implications for the X part when choosing
between a "bf24" a "compact" or a "vanilla" version in the very
beginning - without any indication that this selection defines the
possible ways and selection alternatives for the X part much later.
There then, for instance, he gets a choice for the video card's RAM
which he just _cannot_ answer correctly if that card in his machine has
more than 4 MB video RAM. The answer to give is "1024 KB" - manifestly
wrong for many cards having 8 to 64 or even more MB but the only way to
get it going at all (with ensuing endess trial and error with the
config files to get a high resolution screen/card accepted).
And I don't even want to know which idiot has introduced the complete
incongruity of the term "Dismiss" as denomination for the "Accept"
selection with many of those steps in the install/config routines...
// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-10-25
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net
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