I had an Acer Aspire from 1995(or 96), it wasn't that bad. The biggest problem I've had with it was the CD-ROM drive chokes on CD-R(but so do some other older CD-ROM drive), and the power supply died last year, but before that the thing ran almost constantly for 7 or 8 years. Also the OS wasn't any more crippled that any other verison of Windows 95, the only difference was that by default it had the Ace shell running on top of it, but it could easily be disabled.
I've always found tthe Gnome UI(in the 2.x series) to be quite clean and professional, and it happens that I'm a Mac user too. KDE just seems to be trying to be Windows way too much, although it is improving too.
(btw- why is the parent a troll? He's just complementing to DE the article is about)
By that logic, Red Hat is no cost to since its own tools are opensource. SuSE in more no cost that Red Hat. Sure IBM could take all the parts and ship them for free, but they could call it SuSE(or Red Hat), and they would have to support it themselves.
I can understand RPG or even strategy games being made into board games, but and fast paced shooter? I think they'll end up with a completely unrelated game with Doom images.
Debian's PPC version is also equal to their x86, and is quite good. Yellow Dog isn't bad either, although I wish they would port Fedora to PPC and use that as the base for YDL. Mandrake's PPC versions are usally okay, although sometimes buggy, but they get released sporadically.
Well some people just want to play games, and I'll bet this usint will be quite a bit more expensive. SO if I just want to play games I'd rather pay $79-$99 for a GBA, not in excess of $200 or $300.
The Marine midset and mentallity was never quite for me. Since I was going in to the techincal training and experance, the Navy and Air Force were my two options and I don't like ships.
Don't forget that the $27,000 is just your base bay. On top of that you either live on base for free(including electricity and water), or get a housing allowence which changes depending on where you are and your rank, and family. Plus health and dental on top of that.
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I had an Acer Aspire from 1995(or 96), it wasn't that bad. The biggest problem I've had with it was the CD-ROM drive chokes on CD-R(but so do some other older CD-ROM drive), and the power supply died last year, but before that the thing ran almost constantly for 7 or 8 years. Also the OS wasn't any more crippled that any other verison of Windows 95, the only difference was that by default it had the Ace shell running on top of it, but it could easily be disabled.
Okay, we were wrong in 2001, 2002, and 2003, but we really mean it this time.
I hope it does happen this year though.
In other news, the anitchrist sues for defamation of character.
Good, I write to my state legislature representative and see about getting Alabama classified as a third world country.
Now when I watch that little animation, the fist thing that comes to mind is a Beowulf cluster.
What's all this talk about Slackware's installpkg for .tgz files?
but for some reason he thinks that his opinions should be pushed onto everybody else
He acts like he runs the place.
It seems you were tricked by this "Red Hate" company. I think the company you were looking for is Red Hat. Sorry for any inconvenience.
for a $200 computer, that's a 25% increase.
I've always found tthe Gnome UI(in the 2.x series) to be quite clean and professional, and it happens that I'm a Mac user too. KDE just seems to be trying to be Windows way too much, although it is improving too.
(btw- why is the parent a troll? He's just complementing to DE the article is about)
I think Smalltalk++ would be in wrong direction. Maybe OBjective-Smalltalk, or Smalltalk#.
By that logic, Red Hat is no cost to since its own tools are opensource. SuSE in more no cost that Red Hat. Sure IBM could take all the parts and ship them for free, but they could call it SuSE(or Red Hat), and they would have to support it themselves.
Don't the new Russian desktop overlords welcome you?
yeah, netBSD is great on a lot of those old 68k macs.
Red Hat: Doesn't include MP3
Debian: Outdated
Gentoo: Takes to long to compile
SuSE: Now we need a new thing to complain about SuSE.
How about that Gecko think, I never liked him any way.
I didn't know computer ownership was that high
I can understand RPG or even strategy games being made into board games, but and fast paced shooter? I think they'll end up with a completely unrelated game with Doom images.
Debian's PPC version is also equal to their x86, and is quite good. Yellow Dog isn't bad either, although I wish they would port Fedora to PPC and use that as the base for YDL. Mandrake's PPC versions are usally okay, although sometimes buggy, but they get released sporadically.
Even though I erased the CD-RWs that I had mandrake 9 on, I didn't copy the first one to a CD-R so I would have an NTFS partitioner.
My first copy of Linux was Mandrake 6.1, and I got it at Wal-Mart I think. Too bad they don't carry linux in thier stores any more.
Well some people just want to play games, and I'll bet this usint will be quite a bit more expensive. SO if I just want to play games I'd rather pay $79-$99 for a GBA, not in excess of $200 or $300.
This is why I'm not completly against Spam, but I wish they would clearly mark it so those who don't want it won't get it and this guy will.
The Marine midset and mentallity was never quite for me. Since I was going in to the techincal training and experance, the Navy and Air Force were my two options and I don't like ships.
Don't forget that the $27,000 is just your base bay. On top of that you either live on base for free(including electricity and water), or get a housing allowence which changes depending on where you are and your rank, and family. Plus health and dental on top of that.
Remember that while each service has basic training, every Marine has a second mo as a rifleman. Semper Fi!
Exactly why I've decided to join the Air Force. Six weeks and the easiest basic training.