1. You are wrong. The "fragmentation" has nothing to do with why Linux hasn't gone farther on the desktop
2. Even if the "fragmentation" was the sole cause of Linux not going farther on the desktop, I would not trade any of the choices we have for more market share. If people want to inflict Windows on themselves (although 7 is so bad), that is their problem.
3. "consistency and minimum standards" - someone has never heard of freedesktop.org
>faster I guess. The two collections of bookmarks I use on clean startup are on my bookmarks toolbar, so it is two movements and two clicks to open 25+ tabs
On my Linux system, SeaMonkey is using about 830 res, one FF is 830 res, and the other FF is about 190 res. But I have somewhere over 100 tabs open (5 windows) in SeaMonkey, 136 in FF and 46 in the second FF. With my 4 GB of RAM, I am not hitting swap, so I don't really care.
Really? Over here on Linux, session restore has worked perfectly since 3.0 (I have seen that dialog maybe twice, and they came back fine anyway). But then, the Flash 10 64-bit beta on Linux seems to be more stable than the released Flash 10 on Windows...
In this case speed dial is having the start page display thumbnail shortcuts of maybe 6-12 pages...that you use frequently? or maybe the last ones you had open? something like that. Chrome and Opera have this natively, and yes, FF has an extension for it (which I think might get uplifted in a version or two).
Personally, I don't see the point - I have bookmarks, collections of bookmarks (open all in folder) and normally I am just using session restore anyway.
I guess I see why you start-stop types like Opera and Chrome, but once I start X and a few terms, the next thing is SeaMonkey, and then it stays open, with just a minute or so down time to install the update every few days (since I use nightlies).
And I would argue that Firefox's start up is just un-optimized, not due to bloat - SeaMonkey seems to start about as fast FF, so I think is just Gecko, which definitely isn't bloated.
I allow ads on sites I frequent... except Slashdot. Slashdot has some of the worst behaved ads I have seen on a respectable site (well, aside from those bizarre double underlined link ads/searches/definitions, but noscript gets them). Even now/. ads are blocked, just in case the "turn off ads" option goes away.
So what does it mean? It really strains the apparent meaning of that sentence to take it to mean that it will be a new implementation of the X11 protocol (and what good would that do them anyway?). I can't even think of any other possible meanings.
Mono is not a part of the Gnome platform, and almost certainly never will be. Tomboy, F-Spot and Banshee are not official Gnome apps, and never will be.
Sounds about right. Miguel is still the lead dev for Mono; he is a Gnome dev, but afaik he holds no particular position, and isn't really that active in non-Mono dev.
That's a laugh. Clutter, gnome shell, zeitgeist, telepathy, tracker. And many totally cross-DE projects have a much stronger connection to the Gnome community, even if KDE is using them: dbus, the *kits, PA, etc.
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1. You are wrong. The "fragmentation" has nothing to do with why Linux hasn't gone farther on the desktop
2. Even if the "fragmentation" was the sole cause of Linux not going farther on the desktop, I would not trade any of the choices we have for more market share. If people want to inflict Windows on themselves (although 7 is so bad), that is their problem.
3. "consistency and minimum standards" - someone has never heard of freedesktop.org
I am not 100% sure, but I think modern (dh 7.x) dh-make-perl will auto-answer a lot/all of the CPAN questions if you run it before you run plain CPAN
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>faster
I guess. The two collections of bookmarks I use on clean startup are on my bookmarks toolbar, so it is two movements and two clicks to open 25+ tabs
What? The FF 3.0 alphas and betas where slower than 3.0 final, same was true for FF 3.5, and expected again for FF 3.6
On my Linux system, SeaMonkey is using about 830 res, one FF is 830 res, and the other FF is about 190 res. But I have somewhere over 100 tabs open (5 windows) in SeaMonkey, 136 in FF and 46 in the second FF. With my 4 GB of RAM, I am not hitting swap, so I don't really care.
Not sure about FF 1.x, but FF2 and 3 are/where faster than Opera (maybe not anymore...)
Really? Over here on Linux, session restore has worked perfectly since 3.0 (I have seen that dialog maybe twice, and they came back fine anyway). But then, the Flash 10 64-bit beta on Linux seems to be more stable than the released Flash 10 on Windows...
In this case speed dial is having the start page display thumbnail shortcuts of maybe 6-12 pages...that you use frequently? or maybe the last ones you had open? something like that. Chrome and Opera have this natively, and yes, FF has an extension for it (which I think might get uplifted in a version or two).
Personally, I don't see the point - I have bookmarks, collections of bookmarks (open all in folder) and normally I am just using session restore anyway.
I guess I see why you start-stop types like Opera and Chrome, but once I start X and a few terms, the next thing is SeaMonkey, and then it stays open, with just a minute or so down time to install the update every few days (since I use nightlies).
And I would argue that Firefox's start up is just un-optimized, not due to bloat - SeaMonkey seems to start about as fast FF, so I think is just Gecko, which definitely isn't bloated.
You know, "cuntnozzle" sounds like a mashup to me.
I allow ads on sites I frequent... except Slashdot. Slashdot has some of the worst behaved ads I have seen on a respectable site (well, aside from those bizarre double underlined link ads/searches/definitions, but noscript gets them). Even now /. ads are blocked, just in case the "turn off ads" option goes away.
Ink blot?
Anyway FF is improving faster than IE. And anyway IE started so far behind that it would be v10 or 11 at a minimum before it equaled even current FF.
gravatar also sounds like an alternate name for a black hole.
A mis-feature, maybe. X is awesome.
So what does it mean? It really strains the apparent meaning of that sentence to take it to mean that it will be a new implementation of the X11 protocol (and what good would that do them anyway?). I can't even think of any other possible meanings.
There is just no pleasing some people :-P
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
Yes, they probably could handle it. And I could get a 70's Toyota and give it a fancy metallic paint job with flames, but I am not sure why I would.
Doesn't change the fact that it is a non-standard distro that doesn't even have X11.
I'll stick with Debian, thanks.
>netbook
>compiz
you're doing it wrong
Mono is not a part of the Gnome platform, and almost certainly never will be. Tomboy, F-Spot and Banshee are not official Gnome apps, and never will be.
>So if this is the future...where's my jet pack?
right here: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/
Sounds about right. Miguel is still the lead dev for Mono; he is a Gnome dev, but afaik he holds no particular position, and isn't really that active in non-Mono dev.
>There is little innovation happening
That's a laugh.
Clutter, gnome shell, zeitgeist, telepathy, tracker. And many totally cross-DE projects have a much stronger connection to the Gnome community, even if KDE is using them: dbus, the *kits, PA, etc.