mslicker wrote: > It is very important to correct misleading presumptions made by authors of > articles in the media. If the context is given that its two approaches > for an administrator, versus a comparison of two technologies that are > apples and oranges (in the broader context), then this article would be > much improved in quality for all. It would not mislead and cause more > misunderstanding of how UNIX GUIs are put together.
I agree that one should try to correct statements that one finds misleading. I do not fault you in the least for speaking up. As I said, you are absolutely right (that from an academic perspective they are apples and oranges). We just had different grounding assumptions about the context of the discussion. Speaking of context, what article(s) are you talking about? Did all of this start over an article? I just searched (don't get excited everyone, I looked through manually) the archives on Geocrawler for the roots of this thread. It seems to have started with the subject line "Help: Server reboot when out of memory!" and some suggested using IceWM instead of KDE (this was on Red Hat 7.2 w/ 30 clients) to spare memory on the server: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/10022/2002/1/300/7614590/ http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/10022/2002/1/300/7610093/ If this was the context of the discussion, then I don't see where you are coming from talking about "authors of articles in the media" and so on. This mailing list is certainly public and could influence people's decisions, but it's not like anyone performed an unfair lab test pitting IceWM against KDE on Red Hat 7.2 and then got it published on Slashdot! > Frankly, I think we need a script that strips out and refined the KDE and > GNOME systems for LTSP or light desktop use. I may likely work on such a > thing in the coming months as this is an issue that related directly to my > LTSP network. I think this is a great idea! :-) I think you would find much appreciation on this list for such a script. Many people want to have the bells and whistles of Gnome or KDE without all the bloat, but no one is willing (rightly so, IMHO) to bear the tedium of cutting away all of the fat. If such a script were available and customizable (to control the extent of the crippling), I think it would be one of the most popular utilities for use with LTSP! It does sound like a lot of work, though. Perhaps someone else here can help contribute to the effort. I say, go for it! Jason _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
