Um, yeah. I'd rather keep a clean system where I know which file belongs to which package and can track dependencies. I dont like keeping the build of some 3rd party program I downloaded and installed just so later on I have to un/reinstall. I'll forget which files to delete if I don't want the program, too. That's kind of sloppy.
Check out Red Hat 8.0 and see what they did to fonts. XFT 2 rocks. The fonts are on par with Windows XP Cleartype which I have installed along with RH8 on my laptop. Here is a screenshot:
On Mozilla's website, under the nightly/experimental directory, there are RedHat 8.0 rpms for Mozilla 1.2 beta with XFT support. Now Mozilla fonts look the same as in KDE/GNOME2 programs!
I work at a small local ISP.. our previous DSL reseller stopped providing ADSL so we had to switch over to Southwestern Bell as our reseller. You may think that this would put us out of business because we do charge a higher rate than SWB, but a lot of gamers and net savvy people sign up with us because we don't block ports, we don't have a bandwidth cap, no PPPoE, and we assign static IP's. So just to let you know, price isn't everything.
I use KDE in unstable.. heck you can even get Woody debs built from both a guy that writes a lot of KDE code and an official Debian developer on the kde ftp site.
umm.. what's the problem here? Can they NOT customize their distro? How are they depriving YOU of any rights? They're not.. they're a company out to make money (duh..), if that means taking out the.tw flag, well. so be it, its a business decision. I'm sure some of their hackers didnt like it but they have to make a salary somehow.
Yes, this one got me too. I rebooted the computer and rpm cleared itself up. What I ended up doing is adding -Uvvvh to the RPM options in apt.conf (I doubt this is a clean solution, but I havent had any hangs since).
Red Hat should just drop KDE and put all their resources into GNOME. Every KDE program has a GNOME equivalent. It's not big suprise that they're realling pushing for gtk/gnome, seeing that most of their top hackers are old school gtk/gnome hackers. Let Mandrake and SuSe take over the polishing up KDE for distribution job.
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I suppose someone could just write a bookmarks/cookies server which would listen on a port, and when you open up your webbrowser, the browser would retrieve all the information.
You have to trust somebody if you want to get a usable operating system on your computer. I'm pretty sure the oeone people have locked down that webserver, anyways.
Just wget install.oeone.com/index.html and check out the script for yourself.
Because some people like to multitask.. run a stable web, mail, database, etc server AND play some games and only have one computer. Most modern *BSD distributions are easy to use and load sound modules, video drivers isnt as hard as you think...
Most people running apache-ssl use it for some kind of "e-commerce" and if they don't look up for some kind of security updates at least once a day, they should at least subscribe to debian's security mailing list or redhat's or whatever vendor's they use security mailing list.
Ok, gosh.. you bought your iBook, no need to show off on Slashdot. Some of us can't afford Apple hardware. To me, PC's are now 'good' enough and Windows 2000/XP is as good as operating systems get minus Microsoft using EULA's to have a backdoor to your computer.
As for me, I'm pretty happy with Debian with Gnome 1.4 and KDE 3.. I get my work done fast and efficient AND it looks pretty.
Because if you're buying an Apple, you're already buying overpriced hardware. They've already made a lot of money off of you. And to me, it seems you've already 'bought' iDVD so why can't users use it on a faster, non-Apple DVD burner?
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anyone wanna bet that gg allin was the goatse.cx man?
Um, yeah. I'd rather keep a clean system where I know which file belongs to which package and can track dependencies. I dont like keeping the build of some 3rd party program I downloaded and installed just so later on I have to un/reinstall. I'll forget which files to delete if I don't want the program, too. That's kind of sloppy.
yes.. thats true, it'll override the symbolic link unless you use dpkg-divert.
If you want to mix and match perl, just install your own copy and mv /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl.old ln -sf /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl
/usr/local
Also by default perl modules you build yourself will be install in
And of course, you can build your own debian packages of software.
Check out Red Hat 8.0 and see what they did to fonts. XFT 2 rocks. The fonts are on par with Windows XP Cleartype which I have installed along with RH8 on my laptop. Here is a screenshot:
u ll =1
http://www.otsnet.net/gallery/screenshots/aak?f
Earlier X versions didnt do the subpixel aliasing right, but they got it down on XFree 4.2
err web->ftp
On Mozilla's website, under the nightly/experimental directory, there are RedHat 8.0 rpms for Mozilla 1.2 beta with XFT support. Now Mozilla fonts look the same as in KDE/GNOME2 programs!
I work at a small local ISP.. our previous DSL reseller stopped providing ADSL so we had to switch over to Southwestern Bell as our reseller. You may think that this would put us out of business because we do charge a higher rate than SWB, but a lot of gamers and net savvy people sign up with us because we don't block ports, we don't have a bandwidth cap, no PPPoE, and we assign static IP's. So just to let you know, price isn't everything.
Like many posters above have said, try Nautilus 2. It's super fast.
I use KDE in unstable.. heck you can even get Woody debs built from both a guy that writes a lot of KDE code and an official Debian developer on the kde ftp site.
umm.. what's the problem here? Can they NOT customize their distro? How are they depriving YOU of any rights? They're not.. they're a company out to make money (duh..), if that means taking out the .tw flag, well. so be it, its a business decision. I'm sure some of their hackers didnt like it but they have to make a salary somehow.
Read the comments on the OSNEWS story. the author of the article tells ya how with..
Hahaha.. you think Microsoft is going to cut bloatware? Are you a troll or something?
ANyways, if you are serious, just get extra RAM.. that's what matters most. Computers now a days come with 256 standard and so should you!
And actually, I've ran RedHat 8.0 on my pII 266/128MB RAM laptop and although Mozilla is a bit slow, is completely usable.
Well then.. I guess it's your job to fix things. Isn't free software wonderful?
ever tried out apt-get dist-upgrade ? I'm pretty sure Debian does tons more testing with major releases than you do.
Yes, this one got me too. I rebooted the computer and rpm cleared itself up. What I ended up doing is adding -Uvvvh to the RPM options in apt.conf (I doubt this is a clean solution, but I havent had any hangs since).
You need to install rpm-build and rpm-devel rpms in order to rebuild srpms. then it's just rpmbuild --rebuild program.src.rpm
Red Hat should just drop KDE and put all their resources into GNOME. Every KDE program has a GNOME equivalent. It's not big suprise that they're realling pushing for gtk/gnome, seeing that most of their top hackers are old school gtk/gnome hackers. Let Mandrake and SuSe take over the polishing up KDE for distribution job.
I suppose someone could just write a bookmarks/cookies server which would listen on a port, and when you open up your webbrowser, the browser would retrieve all the information.
You have to trust somebody if you want to get a usable operating system on your computer. I'm pretty sure the oeone people have locked down that webserver, anyways.
Just wget install.oeone.com/index.html and check out the script for yourself.
1. when you do ldconfig, a cache (/etc/ld.so.cache)is created that keeps all the info about the libraries installed on your computer.
2. apt-get takes care of dependency tracking for me. up2date and urpmi for rpm based systems also do this for you.
Because some people like to multitask.. run a stable web, mail, database, etc server AND play some games and only have one computer. Most modern *BSD distributions are easy to use and load sound modules, video drivers isnt as hard as you think...
Most people running apache-ssl use it for some kind of "e-commerce" and if they don't look up for some kind of security updates at least once a day, they should at least subscribe to debian's security mailing list or redhat's or whatever vendor's they use security mailing list.
Ok, gosh.. you bought your iBook, no need to show off on Slashdot. Some of us can't afford Apple hardware. To me, PC's are now 'good' enough and Windows 2000/XP is as good as operating systems get minus Microsoft using EULA's to have a backdoor to your computer.
.. I get my work done fast and efficient AND it looks pretty.
As for me, I'm pretty happy with Debian with Gnome 1.4 and KDE 3
Because if you're buying an Apple, you're already buying overpriced hardware. They've already made a lot of money off of you. And to me, it seems you've already 'bought' iDVD so why can't users use it on a faster, non-Apple DVD burner?