>>> David Sainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/07/00 20:13:05 >>>
>tar fxvz blah.tar.gz
>cd blah-x.y
>./configure --prefix=/some/where
>make
>make install
>/some/thing/else/appname &
<toungue firmly in cheek>
Its all the g's next to z's and the x's, v's and z's that scare people. These are
letters near the end of the alphabet and they therefore must have 'sinister' uses, all
the good respectable letters come at the start of the alphabet. And letters which
don't normally date, like g and z, are forming some kind of unholy interracial
relationship by coming next to each other and therefore must be scary people.
</tfic>
Seriously though for someone who only just started with Linux (me!) GNOME and GNORPM
are a 'Tux-send' for those of us getting our feet. Sure it eats memory and runs like
a dog when you try to actually do things (Anyone want to sell some old DRAM??), but
it's nice to be able to quickly run backwards and forwards throught ther filesystem
and try remember where the .config for program xxx might live
But now I see the error of my M$ ways, and scream at my work computer when [TAB]
doesn't complete my command line (we still actually use a dos-shell for some things),
and Notepad without syntax highlighting drove me to installing VIM for windows against
company policy.
Steve
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