I have Borland C++ Builder 3, and it's a great development tool - for Windoze. I think Borland is making a brilliant move. Maybe I'll actually learn Java (I know C cold, and know C++ quite well, working on my Perl:), which I hear is a really nice language. (for some things, at least).
Seems this distribution wants to do away with most of Linux's advantages--flexibility, openness, choice. It tries to hide the command line, and only their "selected" applications will be supported. It tries to cover Linux's internals up by doing everything for the user. But it adds a registry. Hmm.... It tries to turn Linux into a Windows clone.
How does it take away any flexibility? What's stopping your from uninstalling KDE and installing GNOME, for instance? And how many other distributions "support" other programs? None, as far as I know...
I think what they mean by "hiding the command line" is that it will start up in X, instead of starting in console mode. Of course, anyone with a bit of smarts/experience can just edit the/etc/inittab!
Turning Linux into a "Windows Clone", as you call it, is NOT necessarily bad! Is hardware auto-detection bad? RedHat's installer practically does that already!
If you don't like what this distro does, then you can just CHOOSE NOT TO USE IT! Is that so tough?:)
I agree with you - MSIE is very nice. It's fast, about as stable as netscape, and it formats stuff nicely. I also like the way you can easily drag your bookmarks around (click and hold on the one you want on the menu, then just drag it where you want - no messing around with Netscape bookmarks).
It IS annoying that when IE crashes, it takes down the rest of explorer, but since I use LiteStep (cool WM, I mean shell:), it doesn't really affect me.
The autocompleting is nice, too... although it usually has to spin up my smaller hard drive which I mainly use for backup, which is a bit annoying...
MS isn't all bad. They do have some nice things, but it's really annoying when I have to trick Win98 into installing the proper driver for my modem - it's internal, but I have to install the external driver or it crashes hard...
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After using 2.3.1 for a few hours, I encountered a big bad kernel panic when trying to run mpg123 - hopefully this will be fixed in 2.3.2! :)
:).
It's reproduceable, too... just try it
Quite possibly - they ARE hosted by Telefragged, after all! (Or at least part of the same network)
Some people a pretty thick... :)
It was a JOKE!
They will probably transition over to 6.0 soon - but 6.0 is NOT out yet :).
In addition, it could be useful to teach people how to upgrade the kernel, libraries, etc...
I have Borland C++ Builder 3, and it's a great development tool - for Windoze. I think Borland is making a brilliant move. Maybe I'll actually learn Java (I know C cold, and know C++ quite well, working on my Perl :), which I hear is a really nice language. (for some things, at least).
That's funny - netscape is in /usr/bin...
And if you don't know where something is, there's always "locate"...
Already been done...
I have a PD drive (made by Panasonic, they weren't very popular but you can definitely find the cartridges around).
650 MBs.
Also reads CDs.
Rewritable...
Of course, I haven't gotten it to work in Linux (works fine as a CD-ROM, tho), but it's cool.
> References are a thing that should be avoided (why use them when there are much cleaner pointers)
Hmm... just one thing: with a LOT of code, whether you use pointers or references, it produces EXACTLY the same assembly code... interesting, hmm?
How does it take away any flexibility? What's stopping your from uninstalling KDE and installing GNOME, for instance? And how many other distributions "support" other programs? None, as far as I know...
I think what they mean by "hiding the command line" is that it will start up in X, instead of starting in console mode. Of course, anyone with a bit of smarts/experience can just edit the /etc/inittab!
Turning Linux into a "Windows Clone", as you call it, is NOT necessarily bad! Is hardware auto-detection bad? RedHat's installer practically does that already!
If you don't like what this distro does, then you can just CHOOSE NOT TO USE IT! Is that so tough? :)
I agree with you - MSIE is very nice. It's fast, about as stable as netscape, and it formats stuff nicely. I also like the way you can easily drag your bookmarks around (click and hold on the one you want on the menu, then just drag it where you want - no messing around with Netscape bookmarks).
:), it doesn't really affect me.
It IS annoying that when IE crashes, it takes down the rest of explorer, but since I use LiteStep (cool WM, I mean shell
The autocompleting is nice, too... although it usually has to spin up my smaller hard drive which I mainly use for backup, which is a bit annoying...
MS isn't all bad. They do have some nice things, but it's really annoying when I have to trick Win98 into installing the proper driver for my modem - it's internal, but I have to install the external driver or it crashes hard...