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Gnome 2.0 Alpha 1 Released
Dave H writes "The first pre-release of the GNOME 2 platform is now available!
Find it at you can grab it from FTP.gnome.org
It is of course a technology preview; note that it can't be installed alongside GNOME 1.x." There's some more information information posted on LinuxToday.
I always play Dwarves. They usually have a better constitution the gnomes or halflings.
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That could be put on half or more of the stuff on my box.
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All you need to get then is a mature OS gor your GUI.
where's the race? KDE appears to be ahead 3 to 2.
I'm much more interested in seeing if RedHat (at 7.2) can catch Mandrake (up over 8 now)
I think it is cool when people make up words that are made up of the first letters of other words.
X-Windows: ...A mistake carried out to perfection. X-Windows: ...Dissatisfaction guaranteed. X-Windows: ...Don't get frustrated without it. X-Windows: ...Even your dog won't like it. X-Windows: ...Flaky and built to stay that way. X-Windows: ...Complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems. X-Windows: ...Flawed beyond belief. X-Windows: ...Form follows malfunction. X-Windows: ...Garbage at your fingertips. X-Windows: ...Ignorance is our most important resource. X-Windows: ...It could be worse, but it'll take time. X-Windows: ...It could happen to you. X-Windows: ...Japan's secret weapon. X-Windows: ...Let it get in *your* way. X-Windows: ...Live the nightmare. X-Windows: ...More than enough rope. X-Windows: ...Never had it, never will. X-Windows: ...No hardware is safe. X-Windows: ...Power tools for power fools. X-Windows: ...Putting new limits on productivity. X-Windows: ...Simplicity made complex. X-Windows: ...The cutting edge of obsolescence. X-Windows: ...The art of incompetence. X-Windows: ...The defacto substandard. X-Windows: ...The first fully modular software disaster. X-Windows: ...The joke that kills. X-Windows: ...The problem for your problem. X-Windows: ...There's got to be a better way. X-Windows: ...Warn your friends about it. X-Windows: ...You'd better sit down. X-Windows: ...You'll envy the dead.
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I think the major flaw with UNIX is not it's command line, complexity or speed, but the fact that it has no standard shell.
While a lot of linux kids see the ability to use any shell (or even implement their own) as a good thing, I see it as a huge hindrance to usability. A user has to learn the different behaviours of bash, csh, ksh, tcsh and virtually countless others, all with their own prompts, line editors and ways of doing things. Aside from the "look" the "feel" of UNIX will always be discordant, further slowing the already confused or annoyed user down in a quagmire of quotes and pipes.
IMO, if linux (or any UNIX aside from OSX) is going to have any chance at the desktop market, it either has to standardize and enforce a single shell, or be replaced by something more modern.
No, wait! make that no standard text editor. I mean, no standard window manager. I mean, no standard programming language. I mean...
Point is, you can standardize on a toolkit for X if you want to, but that doesn't mean everyone should.