The evil antithesis of Teller is fortunately counter-balanced by the moral purity of the humanity-loving, gourmet-cooking, slashdot-reading, linux-loving, ever-lovable gnulix guy!
Sleep soundly, young Rose. I have built your humanity strong and true.
Bones was my 2nd favorite character after Spock. I loved his sense of humour! Also, one of my favorite Bones moments was in Star Trek 5 where he was reliving the death of his father.
What do the big Open Source.org's do about web hosting? I've been considering registering an.org site (hey! nobody steal gnulixguy.org!) but when it comes to inexpensive web hosting for a non-profit entity, what is the OSS crowd doing?
...would like to point out that, while I am a Red Hat user, if a product (like MicroWerks') tries to lock me into a given distribution, I will not buy it.
I might be happy with Red Hat now, but I was a Slackware user before, and who knows what distribution I'll decide I like better a year from now? Oh...my $500 development tool no longer works just because I switched distros?
Sorry, but even the ever-lovable gnulix guy don't play that game.
It's the ever-lovable gnulix guy with another original gnulix guy original post -- soon to be down-graded by a moderator near you!
The gnulix guy is no stranger to vi and mark-up languages but there are certainly times when a GUI word processor is nice to have. In just a few minutes you can produce something fairly attractive without a lot of effort. It may not be typeset-ready but 99% of the time you don't care about this sort of thing.
I've tried Word Perfect 8.0 for Linux and I generally like it, but it is fairly weak compared to the Windows-version. However, feature-for-feature I think the Linux version is very close to the mark, but the free version is sadly lacking in font support. It also doesn't import as many document types as does the Windows version. I suppose Corel would like to earn some revenue for the product so apparently the pay-for version has improved fonts and feature set. That all being said, the gnulix guy feels that WP 8.0 is a fairly lightweight GUI WP (as lightweight as a GUI WP can come, that is) for a lower-powered less-memory system. In fact, the Linux version seems to manipulate text blocks faster than the Windows version! (Unfortunately, keystroke for keystroke the Linux version seems to lag).
Star Office is nice, it provides just about any feature the gnulix guy could need. It does a pretty good job at document importation but of course its limitations at doing so have been pointed out many times on Slashdot comment forums. One of its problems, however, is that it is a memory pig and I can't stand using it unless I'm using the very latest modern pee cee with a fast CPU and lots of RAM.
On a final note, if work on the KDE office suite continues to progress nicely, I may end up switching.
If this is only good for running Linux-x86 programs under Solaris-x86 (and not Solaris-sparc), then why bother? Save yourself some pain and run a *BSD, Linux, or even better, gnulix derivative of *nix instead!
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You are correct, my delightfully anonymous friend! Once again the technological empowerment of others serves as my undoing! Foiled by an cowardly anonymizer!
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It's parody, not politics, my anonymously cowardly little friend! Don't hate me, I'm the ever-lovable gnulix guy!
Someday you moderator types are going to stop fearing me, stop loathing me, (and, most importantly, stop thinking I equate Linux with GNU!), and start seeing me as the ever-lovable gnulix guy -- all about parody and not about politics!
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...was the existence of www.gnulix.org -- a site whose registration and content the ever-lovable gnulix guy had nothing to do with!
...thanks to the ever-lovable gnulix guy!
The evil antithesis of Teller is fortunately counter-balanced by the moral purity of the humanity-loving, gourmet-cooking, slashdot-reading, linux-loving, ever-lovable gnulix guy!
Sleep soundly, young Rose. I have built your humanity strong and true.
I'd rather not speculate who will be next, or last. :-(
Bones was my 2nd favorite character after Spock.
I loved his sense of humour! Also, one of my favorite Bones moments was in Star Trek 5 where he was reliving the death of his father.
What do the big Open Source .org's do about web hosting? I've been considering registering an .org site (hey! nobody steal gnulixguy.org!) but when it comes to inexpensive web hosting for a non-profit entity, what is the OSS crowd doing?
I take it you're not familiar with the ever-lovable gnulix guy .
My character has nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with parody.
Also, I prefer the term, ``Linux'', myself. :p
Instead of blind hatred towards the gnulix guy , maybe you should visit my web pages -- you might find there is a lot to love about the ever-lovable.
...would like to point out that, while I am a Red Hat user, if a product (like MicroWerks') tries to lock me into a given distribution, I will not buy it.
I might be happy with Red Hat now, but I was a Slackware user before, and who knows what distribution I'll decide I like better a year from now? Oh...my $500 development tool no longer works just because I switched distros?
Sorry, but even the ever-lovable gnulix guy don't play that game.
...would like to say I don't much care for the winning logo, nor the other choices either. ;-(
(What's wrong with the Debian logo that is used for the SlashDot icon bar??)
So who would be most "suitable" for the job? :-)
Jesse Berst?
It's the ever-lovable gnulix guy with another original gnulix guy original post -- soon to be down-graded by a moderator near you!
The gnulix guy is no stranger to vi and mark-up languages but there are certainly times when a GUI word processor is nice to have. In just a few minutes you can produce something fairly attractive without a lot of effort. It may not be typeset-ready but 99% of the time you don't care about this sort of thing.
I've tried Word Perfect 8.0 for Linux and I generally like it, but it is fairly weak compared to the Windows-version. However, feature-for-feature I think the Linux version is very close to the mark, but the free version is sadly lacking in font support. It also doesn't import as many document types as does the Windows version. I suppose Corel would like to earn some revenue for the product so apparently the pay-for version has improved fonts and feature set. That all being said, the gnulix guy feels that WP 8.0 is a fairly lightweight GUI WP (as lightweight as a GUI WP can come, that is) for a lower-powered less-memory system. In fact, the Linux version seems to manipulate text blocks faster than the Windows version! (Unfortunately, keystroke for keystroke the Linux version seems to lag).
Star Office is nice, it provides just about any feature the gnulix guy could need. It does a pretty good job at document importation but of course its limitations at doing so have been pointed out many times on Slashdot comment forums. One of its problems, however, is that it is a memory pig and I can't stand using it unless I'm using the very latest modern pee cee with a fast CPU and lots of RAM.
On a final note, if work on the KDE office suite continues to progress nicely, I may end up switching.
No, my poor unimaginative little friend. I used a Slowaris box in the campus computing lab.
Well, my delightfully inquisitive, Monty Python loving friend, it should be obvious that ``GNU'' is just short for gnulix guy !
(Remember, folks, my always funny, mostly witty, usually moderated-down comments are all about parody, not about politics!)
If this is only good for running Linux-x86 programs under Solaris-x86 (and not Solaris-sparc), then why bother? Save yourself some pain and run a *BSD, Linux, or even better, gnulix derivative of *nix instead!
You are correct, my delightfully anonymous friend! Once again the technological empowerment of others serves as my undoing! Foiled by an cowardly anonymizer!
It's parody, not politics, my anonymously cowardly little friend! Don't hate me, I'm the ever-lovable gnulix guy!
Someday you moderator types are going to stop fearing me, stop loathing me, (and, most importantly, stop thinking I equate Linux with GNU!), and start seeing me as the ever-lovable gnulix guy -- all about parody and not about politics!
Go go gadget gnulix gun!
Time to reboot! :-)