> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/05/01 Mon PM 06:32:02 GMT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Life in the Raw > > Could we just fuck off with this shit. > No one except a few pompous assholes gives a rats ass about it. > > William Robb
That's raw enough for me. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > > > > -- > > > > ************************************************************************* > > * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA * > > * Electrical Engineering * > > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * > > ************************************************************************* > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
