I liked debian, especially apt but i couldn't work out how to get kde installed with 
it, not that i tried to hard, but i suppose it doesn't matter now as i droped kde 
(resource hungry bitch of a thing). 

I was running this machine as 2k, slack8 and deb2.2r2 but when i redid it i made it 98 
(mm dos games) and slack8 and didn't bother with debian again, I suppose I went with 
slack8 because that was the one i knew better due to the fact I had been using it 
more. It was much easier to get X going in debian than it was slackware but.

i like sifting through ./configure --help working out what options i need and can use 
then compiling from source sure it might take longer than using an rpm or deb, but 
then its tweaked for your system. I know people who have built their entire system by 
compiling it and have had a huge performance increase over those who used rpm's and 
deb's.

This is the main reason i use slackware, i need to ensure I get optimal perforamnce 
because i have a crap machine.

-- 
Karl Clements
"Everyone is stupid, its just the degree that varies"


<reply who="Andre Pang" date="Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:55:27 +1100">

> hallo,
> 
> i was buggering around yesterday, and found a very cute little
> program called bubblefishymon.  it's Yet Another System Resource
> Monitor for X (CPU usage, swap memory, memory usage, network
> traffic), but it kicks ass because it's a liddle fishtank instead
> of looking like a boring old graph.  tres groovy!
> 
> a screenshot of the gkrellm version is at
> http://www.algorithm.com.au/gkrellm-bubblefishymon.jpg
> 
> the number of bubbles in the water represent CPU usage, the
> height of the water is the memory usage, number of fishes
> represent network traffic, and the colour of the water is how
> deep you are into swap (blue = none, red = heavy).  the duck is
> just there because ducks are kewt.  (quack!)
> 
> the homepage is at http://www.pigeond.net/bfm/ ; it's available
> as a standalone app, a gkrellm plugin, and i think also a
> windowmaker dock app.  i believe there's also a GNOME applet
> panel version.  for the debian users, there's also a deb package
> at the bottom of the page.
> 
> quack on,
> 
> 
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