Could we just fuck off with this shit.
No one except a few pompous assholes gives a rats ass about it.
William Robb
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From: "Cory Papenfuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: Life in the Raw
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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