Seems to be the biggest problem with CDE is customizing it to your own needs.
Sure the default icons and whiz-bangs are cute, like the spinning globe clock and what-not...
But adding a "dt action" is not intuitive and most of the time, half-assed. Try dragging a Netscape icon from the file manager into one of the sub-panels. You would THINK that Netscape is now point-n-click on that panel. It is not. You end up with something that fires up a dialog box asking for parameters, then you get a terminal window that Netscape is started up from, then you finally get Netscape. This should really be a lot easier...
Stupid shit like this is what made CDE less than desirable, IMO. It's a cool window manager if you learn the keystroke accelerators, but stupid things like the above just kinda ruin it!
From their DeXtop information page it seems that it's JUST the CDE components and not the X server...
"DeXtop v2.1 contains everything that maXimum cde contained EXCEPT X server. Now that we have AX, LX, MX, 3DAX,
and LGDs for laptops, single-head and multi-head cards, we separated the X server from the GUI for customer flexibility
(and so we didn't have to have so many combinations as products). If you are upgrading from one of the maXimum cde
products, the DeXtop Upgrade Table might be helpful."
So it would seem to me that their CDE does work with AX - look at MaXimum CDE. Are you saying it doesn't?
For example, when I installed the CDE product with their AX server, it installed "mwm" as the default window manager! Yikes. The installer also has a habit of overwriting your current configs - you MUST read the directions, and make backups of important files like.xinitrc, etc.
The install program needs to be a little more direct in what it's doing. Other than that, their products are very good, speedwise and stability-wise. I've never had an issue with their software - just the installer.
Just call it "Red Hat Linux" and leave it at that... Perhaps "Desktop" or "Deluxe" and such, but like you said, numbers just confuse people, and quickly get old.
Are you trying to follow the Solaris example with product names that change several times a year ("Solaris 7" and then "Solaris 8", etc.) or perhaps the Windows convention ("Windows 95" to "Windows 98" to "Windows 2000")?
Why not just call it "Red Hat Linux" and then specify a version OUTSIDE of the name of the product?
Or, include it in the product name to begin with, like you did with all the other versions.
You're not fooling anyone - we all know it's a buggy.0 release...;>
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How do you think things like Red Hat for Sparc work? ;>
Sure the default icons and whiz-bangs are cute, like the spinning globe clock and what-not...
But adding a "dt action" is not intuitive and most of the time, half-assed. Try dragging a Netscape icon from the file manager into one of the sub-panels. You would THINK that Netscape is now point-n-click on that panel. It is not. You end up with something that fires up a dialog box asking for parameters, then you get a terminal window that Netscape is started up from, then you finally get Netscape. This should really be a lot easier...
Stupid shit like this is what made CDE less than desirable, IMO. It's a cool window manager if you learn the keystroke accelerators, but stupid things like the above just kinda ruin it!
"DeXtop v2.1 contains everything that maXimum cde contained EXCEPT X server. Now that we have AX, LX, MX, 3DAX, and LGDs for laptops, single-head and multi-head cards, we separated the X server from the GUI for customer flexibility (and so we didn't have to have so many combinations as products). If you are upgrading from one of the maXimum cde products, the DeXtop Upgrade Table might be helpful."
So it would seem to me that their CDE does work with AX - look at MaXimum CDE. Are you saying it doesn't?
The install program needs to be a little more direct in what it's doing. Other than that, their products are very good, speedwise and stability-wise. I've never had an issue with their software - just the installer.
There's a review from a while back here.
Check it out here. Needs updating, but not bad.
I apologize to Hairy_Potter! :(
Just call it "Red Hat Linux" and leave it at that... Perhaps "Desktop" or "Deluxe" and such, but like you said, numbers just confuse people, and quickly get old.
Red Hat Linux always had a "fully qualified version number" as part of it's name, or none at all. Now - it's just "7"
In this re-post of the question someone from Red Hat answers... Sort of.
Are you trying to follow the Solaris example with product names that change several times a year ("Solaris 7" and then "Solaris 8", etc.) or perhaps the Windows convention ("Windows 95" to "Windows 98" to "Windows 2000")?
Why not just call it "Red Hat Linux" and then specify a version OUTSIDE of the name of the product?
Or, include it in the product name to begin with, like you did with all the other versions.
You're not fooling anyone - we all know it's a buggy .0 release... ;>
Moderate this one down too, ya bastard.
"I... Don't... Give... A... Fuck..."
Is that simple enough?
fucking loser - get a life
Dumbass. That's a different article. I also beat that one.
Where's the 0? Yes, it counts.
Dumbass.
This one is called "electricsheep" and uses a distributed approach to preventing burn-in of your monitors. Looks pretty cool.
It's called electricsheep - a distributed screensaver.
I think it may have been a rendered, distributed flame fractal.
You're not thinking of corona are you? ;>
You rejected my story, which lead to a different story about the same thing.
Bastards.
Eeeew. Pig.
Read what he fixed it up to read now...
Try it again, Timothy. That's it.... Yes... Good boy! Good, good boy!
Do you mean last years cards? Last months? Or ones that are coming out in the future?
They're ALL modern, since 3D cards for the PC haven't existed for all that long...
This could be potentially very bad for DC - putting them out of business. That's not very funny.