On Mon, 1 May 2006, graywolf wrote:
Well, XP is a fairly decent OS. Bloated as hell, mind you,but that applies to
most Linux distributiions too. It hardly ever crashes. Of course if you do
not know how to tame it Redmond keeps changing it with those nasty automatic
updates. One a couple of months ago changed the look and feel on me. I shall
have to go back and reload XP from the CD on this machine with updates turned
off, I guess.
Just to put my position in perspective here, Cory, I have been running
Slackware since 0.9.
Ignoring the known security issues, two things are necessary to
make a system useful IMO: Virtual desktops and a good window manager.
I've tried a number of virtual desktops under winders and they're all
fundamentally broken due to the crappy scheduler and the way winders draws
windows. The window manager is broken and unchangeable... and I don't
count changing the Tele-tubby icons as being "changable."
I do agree that the later linux distros are bloated. A bit
annoying as far as I'm concerned... especially with the GTK2 thinking that
"less is more" in functionality. At least it's possible to choose a
smaller on or whittle down a bigger one into something lightweight. With
Winders you're pretty much stuck.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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