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Has GNOME Become LAME?
auferstehung writes "Nicholas Petreley (should that be KNicholas KPetreley) of LinuxWorld and VarLinux.org has taken his gloves off in the latest article in his KDE vs Gnome series. An unabashed KDE supporter, Petreley uses some choice fighting words in re-acronymizing GNOME as the Language Agnostic Morphable Environment
(LAME) Franken-GUI. Despite the sensationalistic flamage throughout the article, several of his GNOME criticisms (Gconf, file selector, features) echo those already voiced within the GNOME community itself. A happy GNOME user myself, please someone...tell me it isn't so."
"once inside"?
HA! The preview button is for cowards.
if we all step on wet paint and then put a GNOME logo on his butt.
I used to care about these KDE vs. GNOME wars, but you know what? They're both equally useless, when it comes right down to it. Bloat is bloat is bloat. Who gives a fuck, really, when there are alternatives like Windows 2000 or Mac OS X? Come on, fringe users don't count.
.0001 percent of the population. Somebody mod me down!
Whoops. I think I just offended about
my GNOME has always sat silently on my front porch. And now it's singing MP3s encoded with LAME?
Who would've though that open source software would lead to a singing GNOME?
"Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
As a followup, I wonder if we can finally settle which religion is the one true faith and whether or not abortion should be legal.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
my desktop looks cluttered and Kalling Keverything Kfoo.Kbar Ketc Kgives Kme Kthe Kshits...
You don't seem so tired of flame wars at all...
That's GLAME to you mister.
I've noticed that when I'm on the wife Windows XP I start to do someting, and have to stop myself because the software isn't in there.
Just a tip... When you're on your wife, it should be the hardware that's in there. Maybe you should try more foreplay, but don't worry, it happens to us all!
Put identity in the browser.
Nicholas Petreley is a raving loony creationist.
Of course he's not going to like anything involving Evolution. Or bonobos, or any other s^hXimian.
Cthulhu loves you.
This reminds me of something that happened at my last job. We were using LAME to encode MP3 frame headers so we could then stream them along to our super-funky P2P-erm, "bandwidth harvesting" system. When one of the marketing people asked us for some details about the tools we used, we said "Well, the MP3 encoder we use is LAME." "What?" he inquired. "Yes, we use the LAME MP3 encoder," we repeated. He said, "Well, couldn't you find a better one?" We explained it to him. He became flustered, saying "no customer is going to want to purchase our product if we use that! You guys need to find some Really Cool MP3 Encoder (RCME) or something, and quick!" We laughed. And laughed. And laughed :-)
Regards,
John
Falling You - beautiful
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I quit reading Slashdot...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
This stupid squabbling is pointless. Articles like this shouldn't even be published by a supposedly newsworthy organisation.
That's why it's here on Slashdot.
why run from Vincenzo?