Quoting Michael Peligro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Daniel M. Duley's pages:]
> Is this really true? Thoughts? > http://www.mosfet.org/fss.html Most of the representations of fact near the top are correct. The conclusions are almost entirely non-sequitur, and flamebait, to boot. He doesn't really have an alternative, and erroneously portrays FHS as a matter of "RedHat compatibility". Hell, Red Hat had to be dragged kicking and screaming into FHS compliance. > http://www.mosfet.org/ He's correct that theming is not the real issue: Red Hat screwing around with -- and arguably damaging & slowing down -- KDE's central facilities, is the real issue. He asks: Okay, but then why are you shipping KDE if you only want to support GTK/Gnome applications? Another way to look at it is that Red Hat Software are no longer shipping KDE, just GNOME with a shim layer to try to run K-apps as well as possible in a GNOME environment. (Some would object that they shouldn't claim to be shipping KDE, then. This might be a good point.) It seems as if there would be a -- pardon the phrase -- market opportunity to ship an RPM-packaged set of software that stripped the RH-mangled KDE out of RH 8.0 and replaced it with more-orthodox KDE 3.1. I personally don't use either of the "desktop" systems, so my concern is at best a distant one. If someone forces me to use an RH system, about the first thing I'm going to do is kill xdm/kdm/gdm/whatever and start X11 with "/usr/bin/wmaker" in my .xinitrc file. -- Cheers, Rick Moen This space for rant. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
