I dunno, I actually find Gnome 2.6 more responsive than Windows XP. I have a reasonably beefy computer, so maybe it's just the fact that Gnome is more consistent than Windows rather than purely faster.
Window dragging in Gnome is a pleasure, and that's without the help of nVidia drivers and their 2D acceleration in XP.
I'd believe the original poster's performace claims. Don't write someone off just because they seem to have an obsession with something.
Imagine an unsuspecting victim from the sticks walking down the main street of a city... the next time they look at their phone they'll have 100 messages to sift through!
Is this comment really something that's going to help Red Hat? What if they move to Windows and never come back (even when it IS ready, according to him)?
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I agree, we all know that we can beat them using ethical and legal means - we shouldn't give them (more?) anti-linux-community firepower.
We really need to support and look after the Mozilla project, for obvious reasons. IE's market share is huge and is tying people to Windows. Opera is fantastic but, as IE, not OSS.
Mozilla (+derivatives) is our only full featured OSS browser. Many people keep complaining about it's lack of speed, or large number of bugs - but in some ways, this is besides the point. It's amazing it has gotten this far and fortunately it looks like it has enough steam to keep going well into the future.
That's ridiculous - there are hardly any girls 18+ I know that play computer games. If this WERE true, wouldn't we be seeing more girl-ish games, like sim-mall or something.
I'm all for the protest... Imagine a world full of patented algorithms - that's no place I want to live.
Keeping information (largely) free and accessible is what is technologically propelling this era. Only greed seems to stand in our way.
In the context of his quote it seems as though he meant limited experience programming in the Windows environment. Chances are his Monash office computer is running Windows (if they're setup is anything like my Uni in Sydney).
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Agreed. If the US really wanted to 'fix' English they'd have had to do a lot more corrections.
I was merely pointing out before that size is not a reason for using the American version (there may be other reasons).
Hehe I'm not sure how much space it would save. I don't normally see the word flavo(u)r appear often in my irregular perusal of the kernel tree.
And if you really want to go detailed, due to the cluster sizes on filesystems it probably wouldn't change the size on disk (unless it went one byte over, which has a low chance of happening). Also as far as downloads go, and decent compression algo would virtually eradicate its effect.
So let's not excuse the bizarre US spelling by saying it uses up less space:)
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I dunno, I actually find Gnome 2.6 more responsive than Windows XP. I have a reasonably beefy computer, so maybe it's just the fact that Gnome is more consistent than Windows rather than purely faster.
Window dragging in Gnome is a pleasure, and that's without the help of nVidia drivers and their 2D acceleration in XP.
I'd believe the original poster's performace claims. Don't write someone off just because they seem to have an obsession with something.
I thought they did consider it... just because they rejected it doesn't mean they didn't consider it, right?
I wasn't aware that this was part of the philosophy.
Does anyone know how to change the colour of my MS Tablet PC? It's just blue all the time...
I think it will be abused too...
Imagine an unsuspecting victim from the sticks walking down the main street of a city... the next time they look at their phone they'll have 100 messages to sift through!
...or want files in .wma format?
Is this comment really something that's going to help Red Hat? What if they move to Windows and never come back (even when it IS ready, according to him)?
I agree, we all know that we can beat them using ethical and legal means - we shouldn't give them (more?) anti-linux-community firepower.
Sorry yes, I suppose I was thinking more of those web sites that 'require' IE5+... Also that whole thing about 'no more standalone IE'.
Also yes, forgot about Konqueror - although not much of an alternative for Windows users... are there plans for a port?
Even with the Konqueror in the picture, I personally view Mozilla as a bit of a flagship for OSS.
We really need to support and look after the Mozilla project, for obvious reasons. IE's market share is huge and is tying people to Windows. Opera is fantastic but, as IE, not OSS.
Mozilla (+derivatives) is our only full featured OSS browser. Many people keep complaining about it's lack of speed, or large number of bugs - but in some ways, this is besides the point. It's amazing it has gotten this far and fortunately it looks like it has enough steam to keep going well into the future.
Let's not take it for granted.
That's ridiculous - there are hardly any girls 18+ I know that play computer games. If this WERE true, wouldn't we be seeing more girl-ish games, like sim-mall or something.
I'm all for the protest... Imagine a world full of patented algorithms - that's no place I want to live. Keeping information (largely) free and accessible is what is technologically propelling this era. Only greed seems to stand in our way.
Finally I will be able to peer into craters that house the martians. I hope they're as attactive as Amy of Futurama...
Maybe they'll start incubating genetically modified ocean sponges that grow much larger. I can see a cool horror movie being made here...
I think this form of power could only be supplementary to an alternative, more powerful supply.
In the context of his quote it seems as though he meant limited experience programming in the Windows environment. Chances are his Monash office computer is running Windows (if they're setup is anything like my Uni in Sydney).
Agreed. If the US really wanted to 'fix' English they'd have had to do a lot more corrections. I was merely pointing out before that size is not a reason for using the American version (there may be other reasons).
Hehe I'm not sure how much space it would save. I don't normally see the word flavo(u)r appear often in my irregular perusal of the kernel tree. And if you really want to go detailed, due to the cluster sizes on filesystems it probably wouldn't change the size on disk (unless it went one byte over, which has a low chance of happening). Also as far as downloads go, and decent compression algo would virtually eradicate its effect. So let's not excuse the bizarre US spelling by saying it uses up less space :)