yes, that is true, but i have also heard of many people who have computers such as low 200 MHz or high 100's, with not exceptional amounts of RAM, and do not like the speed of KDE; but agree with GNOME's speed. -- scott miga
hello. nice to meet you. thanks for replying. lets go through this step by step shall we..
"The "date was set" this last monday. OMFG, that is such a long time", isnt it though? in my "comment"(comment in the sense, my opinion, not a news article or anything), i said that release dates werent set at all, i dont care if the release date was set 5 hours prior to the release. i was writing about the point of unplanned releases.
"Are you a gnome developer", yes, i am Linus Torvalds. no really, i am not a gnome developer, and dont plan on being one. must i be a gnome developer in order to post my comments on the release of a certain product? in that case, Microsoft would have a really really really huge developer status. have i installed/worked with 1.0?, yes i have. cool, eh? i installed it about 2 hours after it was released, done by compiling the source. i encountered some compile problems, as well as some run-time problems, none of which were major, all of which i was able to rid of quickly.
"are you an elite kde user?", no, i am not an elite kde user. yes, i have used kde in the past, monkeyed around with it, but no, Window Maker is my choice of a window manager, and occassionally i use GNOME to test out certain peices of software, and more importantly.. to test out the new releases, expecially the current 1.0. "ignorant people should die.", please, please. thus be the reason why Rob should rid slashdot of Anonymous Cowards.
any more questions or comments? please feel free to email me, that is, if you are brave enough to reveal your real identity. thanks for your comments, and have a nice day.:)
hey how about some pics of the VA booth? every conference the booth keeps on getting bigger, better, and meaner(in the good sense), or at least thats what it appears to be doing.:) -- scott miga
my initial reaction to the GNOME 1.0 release is that of mixed feelings. i feel that the GNOME 1.0 release was good in that the big 1.0 release of any product is a milestone for that product and shouldn't be ignored. on the other hand, rushing releases to meet release dates, such as our friends Microsoft, is never a good way to establish such an important version.
such is the case with The GIMP. the gimp, over the years, has done exactly what a good peice of software should do. on unmarked release dates, new versions of the gimp are released, with numerous changes; often the patch sizes are quite large. only but a few times has a version been released that dosen't include a big update, except that of tiny important bug fixes. the idea about the release date of versions can be also traced to #gimp on irc.gimp.org on irc. you will find the place where most of the gimp developers hang out and discuss gimp code along with other projects, such as the gnome project. if you ask when the next version of the gimp is going to be released, and someone is not idle, you will most likely receive an answer such as "we dont know", or "a date is not set". a version is released when they feel that enough changes and fixes have been incorperated into the version.
the GNOME 1.0 release was set for today, Wednesday March 3rd, 1999. you could almost be sure a delay wasen't going to happen, unless of a program critical problem. as Tuesday ended, and Wednesday rolled around, news was broken of the GNOME 1.0 release. immedially hundreds of people flocked to ftp.gnome.org, also checking the mirrors to find out that they weren't synced yet and didn't have the 1.0 release. as many downloaded, compiled, or maybe just rpm'ed, problems were encountered, and solutions were hard to find, in some cases. such is the problem when releases are rushed.
i feel that GNOME 1.1 will be much more developed than 1.0, and will be easier for the linux community as a whole to have GNOME working problem-free, or at least better than 1.0. no one wants another Microsoft-like product to ruin the linux long-standing idea of non-marked release dates. -- scott miga
i was dissappointed today(02/28/99) when i stopped by WaldenBooks @ the mall and found out they didn't have "Running to the Mountain" by Jon Katz.
after half-searching the bookstore, i decided to go ask the front desk if they had any copies. after correctly remembering it was Jon and not John, she came across the book, then stating how they did not have any copies. actually, it was more like "no we haven't seen that book yet". she said it was in hardcover, and i didn't ask when they would be getting any in, because the mall is out of town for me and i make it there about once a month if im lucky. so i ended up buying a book found in the computer section titled "extra life" by David S. Bennahum. the cover was what actually caught my attention; it bears a very old computer, where the screen is cut out of the outside cover, and hard-printed on the book it says, "extra life". thats it except for a subtitle, his name, and a whole lot of white space. its very good, as i continue reading it(i read the whole introduction and part of chapter one sitting in the little reading area in biography section).
i was also suprised to see many many linux and unix books available. although most of them donned the Red Hat logo. i hope that dosen't lead people to think that Red Hat is the one and only linux operating system. i also thumbed through a book titled "Steal this computer book", which was full of malicious ideas, reports, and websites, and it also suprised me that inside it showed a nude shot of a woman.. usually don't see that in most regular family-book-stores books.
maybe ill go down to my local book store to see if they can order "Running to the Mountain", which im sure they can, its just a matter of how lazy i am and when i will get the time to get down there.:)
personally, i like the interface of KDE much better than that of GNOME. although GNOME is much faster, and possibilty more developed than KDE, i would like to see the speed and functioning of GNOME in KDE. a combination of projects would do a thing like this, but it will never happen. -- scott miga
hey, its not Xwindows! its X, X11, the X windowing system, but its not Xwindows!@#! its not a microsoft product! please remember all, that Xwindows is an improper name, you should be shunned at using it.:)
shouldnt the icon for this article be the "bolt" for hardware stories instead of tux, the linux penguin? just something tp chew on.:)
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ok, after putting my cyrix as 586 instead of a 486/Cx86, it worked. everything seems to be running smoothly now. if any of you fellow cyrix users out there have any questions, mail me.
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does pre4 not work with cyrix 6x86? pre3 worked fine with it, but not pre4. i did everything the same, but, i got a divide by zero and synching error on boot. im going to try again, but i dont think it will work. any other cyrix users out there having trouble? email me!
ok. how can anyone complain about the new freshmeat? did the flamers see it? it was the best thing since sliced bread. if any of you explored the site a bit, and looked around it, you would have found tons and tons of new and awesome stuff. i almost fell over in my chair when i saw it and looked around. could someone please please tell me what they thought was wrong with it? the only thing i saw people suggest was that the search box be near the top more. thats it, just a suggestion, which im sure scoop was going to implement soon.
please guys, please. what is going on here? have people lost their minds because it is 1999? each and every one of you spammers or whoever, take a good look at yourself, and just think about whats going on.:(
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yes, that is true, but i have also heard of many people who have computers such as low 200 MHz or high 100's, with not exceptional amounts of RAM, and do not like the speed of KDE; but agree with GNOME's speed.
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scott miga
hello. nice to meet you. thanks for replying. lets go through this step by step shall we..
"The "date was set" this last monday. OMFG, that is such a long time", isnt it though? in my "comment"(comment in the sense, my opinion, not a news article or anything), i said that release dates werent set at all, i dont care if the release date was set 5 hours prior to the release. i was writing about the point of unplanned releases.
"Are you a gnome developer", yes, i am Linus Torvalds. no really, i am not a gnome developer, and dont plan on being one. must i be a gnome developer in order to post my comments on the release of a certain product? in that case, Microsoft would have a really really really huge developer status. have i installed/worked with 1.0?, yes i have. cool, eh? i installed it about 2 hours after it was released, done by compiling the source. i encountered some compile problems, as well as some run-time problems, none of which were major, all of which i was able to rid of quickly.
"are you an elite kde user?", no, i am not an elite kde user. yes, i have used kde in the past, monkeyed around with it, but no, Window Maker is my choice of a window manager, and occassionally i use GNOME to test out certain peices of software, and more importantly.. to test out the new releases, expecially the current 1.0. "ignorant people should die.", please, please. thus be the reason why Rob should rid slashdot of Anonymous Cowards.
any more questions or comments? please feel free to email me, that is, if you are brave enough to reveal your real identity. thanks for your comments, and have a nice day. :)
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scott miga
hey how about some pics of the VA booth? every conference the booth keeps on getting bigger, better, and meaner(in the good sense), or at least thats what it appears to be doing. :)
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scott miga
my initial reaction to the GNOME 1.0 release is that of mixed feelings. i feel that the GNOME 1.0 release was good in that the big 1.0 release of any product is a milestone for that product and shouldn't be ignored. on the other hand, rushing releases to meet release dates, such as our friends Microsoft, is never a good way to establish such an important version.
such is the case with The GIMP. the gimp, over the years, has done exactly what a good peice of software should do. on unmarked release dates, new versions of the gimp are released, with numerous changes; often the patch sizes are quite large. only but a few times has a version been released that dosen't include a big update, except that of tiny important bug fixes. the idea about the release date of versions can be also traced to #gimp on irc.gimp.org on irc. you will find the place where most of the gimp developers hang out and discuss gimp code along with other projects, such as the gnome project. if you ask when the next version of the gimp is going to be released, and someone is not idle, you will most likely receive an answer such as "we dont know", or "a date is not set". a version is released when they feel that enough changes and fixes have been incorperated into the version.
the GNOME 1.0 release was set for today, Wednesday March 3rd, 1999. you could almost be sure a delay wasen't going to happen, unless of a program critical problem. as Tuesday ended, and Wednesday rolled around, news was broken of the GNOME 1.0 release. immedially hundreds of people flocked to ftp.gnome.org, also checking the mirrors to find out that they weren't synced yet and didn't have the 1.0 release. as many downloaded, compiled, or maybe just rpm'ed, problems were encountered, and solutions were hard to find, in some cases. such is the problem when releases are rushed.
i feel that GNOME 1.1 will be much more developed than 1.0, and will be easier for the linux community as a whole to have GNOME working problem-free, or at least better than 1.0. no one wants another Microsoft-like product to ruin the linux long-standing idea of non-marked release dates.
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scott miga
woo go VAresearch!
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scott miga
i was dissappointed today(02/28/99) when i stopped by WaldenBooks @ the mall and found out they didn't have "Running to the Mountain" by Jon Katz.
after half-searching the bookstore, i decided to go ask the front desk if they had any copies. after correctly remembering it was Jon and not John, she came across the book, then stating how they did not have any copies. actually, it was more like "no we haven't seen that book yet". she said it was in hardcover, and i didn't ask when they would be getting any in, because the mall is out of town for me and i make it there about once a month if im lucky. so i ended up buying a book found in the computer section titled "extra life" by David S. Bennahum. the cover was what actually caught my attention; it bears a very old computer, where the screen is cut out of the outside cover, and hard-printed on the book it says, "extra life". thats it except for a subtitle, his name, and a whole lot of white space. its very good, as i continue reading it(i read the whole introduction and part of chapter one sitting in the little reading area in biography section).
i was also suprised to see many many linux and unix books available. although most of them donned the Red Hat logo. i hope that dosen't lead people to think that Red Hat is the one and only linux operating system. i also thumbed through a book titled "Steal this computer book", which was full of malicious ideas, reports, and websites, and it also suprised me that inside it showed a nude shot of a woman.. usually don't see that in most regular family-book-stores books.
maybe ill go down to my local book store to see if they can order "Running to the Mountain", which im sure they can, its just a matter of how lazy i am and when i will get the time to get down there. :)
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scott miga
personally, i like the interface of KDE much better than that of GNOME. although GNOME is much faster, and possibilty more developed than KDE, i would like to see the speed and functioning of GNOME in KDE. a combination of projects would do a thing like this, but it will never happen.
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scott miga
its a lighthouse, read the post.
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hey, its not Xwindows! its X, X11, the X windowing system, but its not Xwindows!@#! its not a microsoft product! please remember all, that Xwindows is an improper name, you should be shunned at using it. :)
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shouldnt the icon for this article be the "bolt" for hardware stories instead of tux, the linux penguin? just something tp chew on. :)
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ok, after putting my cyrix as 586 instead of a 486/Cx86, it worked. everything seems to be running smoothly now. if any of you fellow cyrix users out there have any questions, mail me.
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does pre4 not work with cyrix 6x86? pre3 worked fine with it, but not pre4. i did everything the same, but, i got a divide by zero and synching error on boot. im going to try again, but i dont think it will work. any other cyrix users out there having trouble? email me!
--
ok. how can anyone complain about the new freshmeat? did the flamers see it? it was the best thing since sliced bread. if any of you explored the site a bit, and looked around it, you would have found tons and tons of new and awesome stuff. i almost fell over in my chair when i saw it and looked around. could someone please please tell me what they thought was wrong with it? the only thing i saw people suggest was that the search box be near the top more. thats it, just a suggestion, which im sure scoop was going to implement soon.
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please guys, please. what is going on here? have people lost their minds because it is 1999? each and every one of you spammers or whoever, take a good look at yourself, and just think about whats going on.
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