I could never make evolution work correctly (albeit in KDE environment), but locale ru_RU.KOI8-R (standard russian localisation) always makes it use unicode with non-unicode fonts now and then. Sun and many US companies think of i18n in the last moment, so for me kmail will still be the mailer of choice for a while.
No, it isn't that I can't go deep down into gconf files and fix some font names (if I am thinking in the right direction - gnome becomes a mystery for me at times like windows registry, you never know where to look for some setting), I am just used to how KDE has lived over font/encoding nightmare of 2.x version and with ttf unicode fonts in Qt it in 99% of cases pics the correct font for the correct place. I cannot say that about gnome.
- very last versions of packages (Mandrake that I use at the moment usually doesn't create new packages until the next distro version, KDE is an exception, but is very slow to appear). I know about www.pclinuxonline.com and Texstar's rpms are the reason why I didn't move from Mandrake yet, but I think I'll change to gentoo anyway.
- stock package versions - I don't like distro to change the behavior of how the whole system works, KDE is an example again, Mosfet wrote about Redhat and Mandrake and why he doesn't like them. I agree with him there.
- Compile everything for a used platform. Now here are the questions:
* Is it worth to really use SSE2 math when compiling for P4? I don't remember particular gcc options, but it can use SSE2 math library and SSE2 floating point arithmetics.
* Any other optimization options that people use often? I searched gentoo forum, everyone seems to stop after -fomit-frame-pointer. I know gcc can generate wrong code when strong optimizations are used, but any experience with it?
* Can gentoo use Intel compiler for building the system? I've seen tests and they had shown that Intel compiler generates better code even for Athlons (I have one at home).
- Portage so far seems to be comparable with urpmi in Mandrake. I didn't notice any advantages, but who knows. I was disappointed in Debian packager once, maybe there are hidden features in portage that I won't live without after I find them.
As IT industry grows up a lot of people keep on using old junk because they won't spend money on new hardware until what they have still works. I hear it often than this or that program is slow or uses way too much memory. Geeks probably understand that getting new hardware is a normal process of IT progress, but explain it to average people, not all of them will agree.
Mozilla is a very good program, I use it on my WS with 900Mb of ram (average process size is 90Mb), but at the moment I am typing this message in Opera 7.11 that runs in 64Mb (ok I know, on this outdated hardware most people would usee win98, but I have linux of course) and it is probably the only full featured (links and dillo aren't ones) browser I could use on this computer.
Also tabbed browsing sometimes isn't easily accepted by some people used to working in windows. Having two task-tab-bars instead of one, that's hard to understand someties. Popup blocking requires you understanding what in the world a JavaScript is too.
Here is a link with some info about it. Now much though...
But here where I work one guy tried 2.4.20 on his Mandrake 9.0 (I cannot confirm that he did everything right though), but his / partition got completely corrupted. Same thing after fresh install and new kernel install.
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As much as I like gentoo, it doesn't release packages immideatelly after they are released. Gnome in gentoo is still 2.2.x as of september 10.
I could never make evolution work correctly (albeit in KDE environment), but locale ru_RU.KOI8-R (standard russian localisation) always makes it use unicode with non-unicode fonts now and then. Sun and many US companies think of i18n in the last moment, so for me kmail will still be the mailer of choice for a while.
No, it isn't that I can't go deep down into gconf files and fix some font names (if I am thinking in the right direction - gnome becomes a mystery for me at times like windows registry, you never know where to look for some setting), I am just used to how KDE has lived over font/encoding nightmare of 2.x version and with ttf unicode fonts in Qt it in 99% of cases pics the correct font for the correct place. I cannot say that about gnome.
I am going to move to gentoo. The reasons are
- very last versions of packages (Mandrake that I use at the moment usually doesn't create new packages until the next distro version, KDE is an exception, but is very slow to appear). I know about www.pclinuxonline.com and Texstar's rpms are the reason why I didn't move from Mandrake yet, but I think I'll change to gentoo anyway.
- stock package versions - I don't like distro to change the behavior of how the whole system works, KDE is an example again, Mosfet wrote about Redhat and Mandrake and why he doesn't like them. I agree with him there.
- Compile everything for a used platform. Now here are the questions:
* Is it worth to really use SSE2 math when compiling for P4? I don't remember particular gcc options, but it can use SSE2 math library and SSE2 floating point arithmetics.
* Any other optimization options that people use often? I searched gentoo forum, everyone seems to stop after -fomit-frame-pointer. I know gcc can generate wrong code when strong optimizations are used, but any experience with it?
* Can gentoo use Intel compiler for building the system? I've seen tests and they had shown that Intel compiler generates better code even for Athlons (I have one at home).
- Portage so far seems to be comparable with urpmi in Mandrake. I didn't notice any advantages, but who knows. I was disappointed in Debian packager once, maybe there are hidden features in portage that I won't live without after I find them.
As IT industry grows up a lot of people keep on using old junk because they won't spend money on new hardware until what they have still works. I hear it often than this or that program is slow or uses way too much memory. Geeks probably understand that getting new hardware is a normal process of IT progress, but explain it to average people, not all of them will agree.
Mozilla is a very good program, I use it on my WS with 900Mb of ram (average process size is 90Mb), but at the moment I am typing this message in Opera 7.11 that runs in 64Mb (ok I know, on this outdated hardware most people would usee win98, but I have linux of course) and it is probably the only full featured (links and dillo aren't ones) browser I could use on this computer.
Also tabbed browsing sometimes isn't easily accepted by some people used to working in windows. Having two task-tab-bars instead of one, that's hard to understand someties. Popup blocking requires you understanding what in the world a JavaScript is too.
I saw this comparison of dual Apple G4 1.25Mhz, AMD MP 2200+, Intel P4 Xeon 2400Mhz and several single processor systems today.
You do the math. Go to the 3rd page if you are impatient.
Here is a link with some info about it. Now much though...
But here where I work one guy tried 2.4.20 on his Mandrake 9.0 (I cannot confirm that he did everything right though), but his / partition got completely corrupted. Same thing after fresh install and new kernel install.