I don't know what piss poor familys you've been visiting, but in Sweden where I live I don't know anyone with an ordinary job that couldn't afford a new computer every other year if they wanted to. It would be like $1000, it's not a freaking fortune.
Europeans seem to make much better use of their machines than people in the U.S. This is not just a difference in how they treat hardware, but how they feel about software, too. Many people in the rest of the world don't have the budgets at work or home to have "current" tech, and they just have better sense in realising that learning to use your tools effectively makes you more productive in general.
What the hell do you think? That western europe is part of the third world? The american ignorance is getting absurd.
What's so hard about setting up a printer in Redhat, provided the printer is supported? I have tried Redhat 9 but never got to use the printer. All I can say is that Mandrake 9.1 autodetected it and it works fine. If you're using KDE k3b is by far the best burning app you can get, nicely integrated with Konqueror and all.
I wouldn't suggest using Slackware if you're looking for an easy setup. I use Mandrake 9.1 and I haven't had to setup a single device by myself. Personally I don't see the benefits of using Slackware, seems to be a geek thing.
I just want to tell you that for me Linux is a better desktop Os than Windows 2000, since my printer (hp 400) isn't even working in Windows, whereas in Linux it prints beautifully. Granted the printer is fairly old but so what, I'm not going to buy new hardware just to be able to run Windows. You never said when you installed Linux, things are moving pretty fast you now.
I have used Redhat 9 and Mandrake 9.1 and for a KDE user Mandrake is better in every way. The theme is easy to change and KDE just feels snappier compared to the one in Redhat. Plus Redhat decided to hide the "show desktop" icon in the panel, one of the most useful features.
I prefer Open Source software but Opera is just so much faster than any other browser, I just couldn't use anything else. I admire Mozilla's strive for standards compliance, but it's just so painfully slow compared to Opera (and Phoenix isn't much better). Maybe Konqueror with the new Apple patches can compete.
I use KDE and have always loved Konqueror, checking out Mozilla now and then to see what's happening. My feelings have always been the same: terrible loading times and just a general slowness in just about every aspect.
So when I recently downloaded a nightly build I did not have high hopes, but was I wrong! The startup time was much improved and everything just felt so much smoother, both the interface and the rendering.
I also love the ability to use tabs for all the pages, instead of having windows all over the place.
Saying that there isn't a decent browser for Linux is complete BS IMHO, I can't find anything that IE does better than Mozilla except having support for those damn QT and Shockwave formats and a large userbase of clueless HTML-coders thinking IE is the only browser in existance.
This christmas I saw a funny animated movie about Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's lazy son trying to earn a place pulling Santa's sledge. It had the same style as the Wallace & Gromit movies, but I can't find any references to it on the Aardman site.
Was it made by the same team?
I saw a demo of the user interface for MS Whistler last night. From Joe User's perspective, it's at least a decade ahead of GNOME or KDE.
So what you are saying is that KDE 2 is about as good as Windows 2.0, yeah right. If you're gonna get any credibility at least try to avoid exaggerations
Just tried to watch a Quicktime movie with a fairly recent Winebuild (20001222) and the older player from Quicktime 3 (new codecs though),and it really works. Funny thing is I have never been able to double the size in Windows, but now it works great! It doesn't shut down cleanly though.
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I don't know what piss poor familys you've been visiting, but in Sweden where I live I don't know anyone with an ordinary job that couldn't afford a new computer every other year if they wanted to.
It would be like $1000, it's not a freaking fortune.
Europeans seem to make much better use of their machines than people in the U.S. This is not just a difference in how they treat hardware, but how they feel about software, too. Many people in the rest of the world don't have the budgets at work or home to have "current" tech, and they just have better sense in realising that learning to use your tools effectively makes you more productive in general.
What the hell do you think? That western europe is part of the third world? The american ignorance is getting absurd.
Well maybe if you turn the computer on and never use it. Better not even look at it.
What's so hard about setting up a printer in Redhat, provided the printer is supported? I have tried Redhat 9 but never got to use the printer.
All I can say is that Mandrake 9.1 autodetected it and it works fine.
If you're using KDE k3b is by far the best burning app you can get, nicely integrated with Konqueror and all.
I wouldn't suggest using Slackware if you're looking for an easy setup. I use Mandrake 9.1 and I haven't had to setup a single device by myself. Personally I don't see the benefits of using Slackware, seems to be a geek thing.
I just want to tell you that for me Linux is a better desktop Os than Windows 2000, since my printer (hp 400) isn't even working in Windows, whereas in Linux it prints beautifully.
Granted the printer is fairly old but so what, I'm not going to buy new hardware just to be able to run Windows.
You never said when you installed Linux, things are moving pretty fast you now.
I forgot to mention the missing startup notifications for KDE apps in Redhat. it feels as if they are diminishing KDE for the benefit of Gnome.
I have used Redhat 9 and Mandrake 9.1 and for a KDE user Mandrake is better in every way. The theme is easy to change and KDE just feels snappier compared to the one in Redhat. Plus Redhat decided to hide the "show desktop" icon in the panel, one of the most useful features.
Yeah, links does everything a modern browser should do doesn't it?
I prefer Open Source software but Opera is just so much faster than any other browser, I just couldn't use anything else.
I admire Mozilla's strive for standards compliance, but it's just so painfully slow compared to Opera (and Phoenix isn't much better). Maybe Konqueror with the new Apple patches can compete.
Well, the page tells me I have to use a Windows computer so can take this service and shove it.
Linux/BSD and KDE is coming along nicely.
Why pay for MacOS X when you can get the code for something that performs and looks better for free?
I use KDE and have always loved Konqueror, checking out Mozilla now and then to see what's happening. My feelings have always been the same: terrible loading times and just a general slowness in just about every aspect.
So when I recently downloaded a nightly build I did not have high hopes, but was I wrong! The startup time was much improved and everything just felt so much smoother, both the interface and the rendering.
I also love the ability to use tabs for all the pages, instead of having windows all over the place.
Saying that there isn't a decent browser for Linux is complete BS IMHO, I can't find anything that IE does better than Mozilla except having support for those damn QT and Shockwave formats and a large userbase of clueless HTML-coders thinking IE is the only browser in existance.
Looking forward to the 1.0 release.
This christmas I saw a funny animated movie about Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's lazy son trying to earn a place pulling Santa's sledge. It had the same style as the Wallace & Gromit movies, but I can't find any references to it on the Aardman site.
Was it made by the same team?
I saw a demo of the user interface for MS Whistler last night. From Joe User's perspective, it's at least a decade ahead of GNOME or KDE.
So what you are saying is that KDE 2 is about as good as Windows 2.0, yeah right. If you're gonna get any credibility at least try to avoid exaggerations
Just tried to watch a Quicktime movie with a fairly recent Winebuild (20001222) and the older player from Quicktime 3 (new codecs though),and it really works. Funny thing is I have never been able to double the size in Windows, but now it works great! It doesn't shut down cleanly though.