That's because all normal OSs put all that configuration stuff in one place.
You mean like/etc?
Or like Microsoft...config functions in control panels, in exploder, My Computer-> Manage->{pick one}, Network->properties->Local Area Network->properties->TCP/IP->properties, Taskbar->properties, etc, etc. Like a normal OS.
KDE->Control Center.
Compare and contrast.
(Don't know about Gnome, haven't used it since KDE 2.0 came out)
We've been using jEdit at work for about a year now, and we really like it quite a bit. It's java based, so it can be a tad slow on an under powered box. Many, many languges supported, and a boat-load of plugins.
It's kind of nice to have one IDE for C,Java, and PHP.
As a former employee of a 'major' DSL provider ( ! Flashcom ) I have seen this coming for some time now. Things like > 8000 subscribers on single 10Mbit connection, various ILEC's 'loosing' orders, Covad moving from the wholesale to the retail space (and back again), and on and on.
When you have Covad and Northpoint at the mercy of organizations like Pac Bell and Bell Atlantic, who are themselves tryng to move into the same market, build-out and service is bound to be problematic.
If you're thinking of DSL, don't bother. Trust me. Do your self a favor and spare yourself the 3-6 month wait and the migrane - just order cable if you can get it. If you can't, maybe you're neighbors will split a T1 with you.
Some months ago we decided it was time to upgrade all our webservers. I have been less than happy with the current (7.0) RedHat offering so we agreed to re-evaluate all the distributions on the market. Each has it merits, but nothing seemed to really fit the purpose as well as it might.
So we turned to LFS (Linux From Scratch). In the process we decided to just start making binary packages of everything we compiled for convenience. And of course the next step was to make a bootable CD with reiser and network support and a simple install shell script.
Gosh, now that we have all this 'in the can' we might as well share it, and maybe even get some feedback, bug reports, and help with packages. And thus was born Beehive Linux.
The point is that the Linux world is the only place that this could have ever happend. Don't like the available solutions for your particular need? Fine, make your own. Offer it up to others. If it's a good concept is good then it will flourish, if it's not it will die eventually.
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That's because all normal OSs put all that configuration stuff in one place.
/etc?
You mean like
Or like Microsoft...config functions in control panels, in exploder, My Computer-> Manage->{pick one}, Network->properties->Local Area Network->properties->TCP/IP->properties, Taskbar->properties, etc, etc. Like a normal OS.
KDE->Control Center.
Compare and contrast.
(Don't know about Gnome, haven't used it since KDE 2.0 came out)
We've been using jEdit at work for about a year now, and we really like it quite a bit. It's java based, so it can be a tad slow on an under powered box. Many, many languges supported, and a boat-load of plugins.
It's kind of nice to have one IDE for C,Java, and PHP.
I can be found at http://www.jedit.org/
As a former employee of a 'major' DSL provider ( ! Flashcom ) I have seen this coming for some time now. Things like > 8000 subscribers on single 10Mbit connection, various ILEC's 'loosing' orders, Covad moving from the wholesale to the retail space (and back again), and on and on.
When you have Covad and Northpoint at the mercy of organizations like Pac Bell and Bell Atlantic, who are themselves tryng to move into the same market, build-out and service is bound to be problematic.
If you're thinking of DSL, don't bother. Trust me. Do your self a favor and spare yourself the 3-6 month wait and the migrane - just order cable if you can get it. If you can't, maybe you're neighbors will split a T1 with you.
Some months ago we decided it was time to upgrade all our webservers. I have been less than happy with the current (7.0) RedHat offering so we agreed to re-evaluate all the distributions on the market. Each has it merits, but nothing seemed to really fit the purpose as well as it might.
So we turned to LFS (Linux From Scratch). In the process we decided to just start making binary packages of everything we compiled for convenience. And of course the next step was to make a bootable CD with reiser and network support and a simple install shell script.
Gosh, now that we have all this 'in the can' we might as well share it, and maybe even get some feedback, bug reports, and help with packages. And thus was born Beehive Linux.
The point is that the Linux world is the only place that this could have ever happend. Don't like the available solutions for your particular need? Fine, make your own. Offer it up to others. If it's a good concept is good then it will flourish, if it's not it will die eventually.
Think of it as technical Darwinism.