Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting guy keren, from the post of Sat, 14 Dec: PC Magazine, for example, has done a great job for years, with 22 annual comparisons, per year. One of those comparisons, repeated any year, compared all the printers that were announced that year (more than 100 PER YEAR). These comparisons

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-14 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Eli Marmor wrote: PC Magazine, for example, has done a great job for years, with 22 annual comparisons, per year. One of those comparisons, repeated any year, compared all the printers that were announced that year (more than 100 PER YEAR). These comparisons covered

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Eli Marmor
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Isn't that what Free Market means? The usual sequence of events is that when you have 10 options for a library, 7-8 of them die out, and you are left with two. That's what happened in the desktop env (anyone still seriously using GNUStep? fvwm?) It's a good thing.

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Henry Ficher
Eli Marmor wrote: snip religious stuff Chazal said: Kin'at Sofrim Tarbe Hochma. /snip What I really miss in Open Source? What does it lack? Open Source offers almost everything we need. Actually, much more than we need: snip How should I choose my choices? The first choice I make is

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Quoting Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - You need a text editor? - No problem; We have emacs for you, we have vi, etc. Just take one. hehe... a signature I caught the other day on some random mailing list: Emacs is a fine OS, but what it lacks to be able to hold it's own against Linux and

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just wish to have a site that will allow me to choose the right tool for my needs. There is an ongoing thread on comp.lang.c.moderated that started when someone posted a question about the best book to learn C from. He was told to figure out first what

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-13, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: hehe... a signature I caught the other day on some random mailing list: Emacs is a fine OS, but what it lacks to be able to hold it's own against Linux and Windows is a good text editor. ;-) I've heard it in a shorter version: (even better IMO :)

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Eli Marmor
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: There is an ongoing thread on comp.lang.c.moderated that started when someone posted a question about the best book to learn C from. He was told to figure out first what it was he wanted to do with (in?) C. The OP said he had a very good idea what he wanted, and that he

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can't just harvest details from the Internet and build a check list; You should try all of the choices in order to get a decision. This is the only way to decide which of them is really the easiet. And which of them is really the fastest. But this

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Eli Marmor wrote: The real thing that is missing, is the opposite one. We have a problem of rich men: too many choices. Isn't that what Free Market means? The usual sequence of events is that when you have 10 options for a library, 7-8 of

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-13, Shachar Shemesh wrote: (anyone still seriously using GNUStep? fvwm?) For the record, yes: at home my main wm currently is fvwm2. And a collegue of me at work is actually using twm.. = To unsubscribe, send mail to

Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-12 Thread Eli Marmor
snip religious stuff Chazal said: Kin'at Sofrim Tarbe Hochma. /snip What I really miss in Open Source? What does it lack? Open Source offers almost everything we need. Actually, much more than we need: - You need a text editor? - No problem; We have emacs for you, we have vi, etc. Just take

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eli Marmor wrote: The real thing that is missing, is the opposite one. We have a problem of rich men: too many choices. Isn't that what Free Market means? The usual sequence of events is that when you have 10 options for a library, 7-8 of them die out, and you are left with two. That's