I am in very much the same situation as you, and it angers me to think about it. My family is what's considered "middle-class", and white. I am also male. I attend a small, inexpensive state-funded university in Texas (SFA) and for the first time this semester I have had to apply for financial aid. My sister graduated from high school this past spring, and she will be starting at the University of Texas in the fall. I also happen to have a two-year-old brother, and in case anyone reading this doesn't know - babies are freaking expensive. As you can imagine, with 15 years left on the mortgage, a car payment (the last car died a horrible death), two tuition payments, and a baby things are TIGHT. As it is, I work 30-50 hours a week while taking 15 hours of classes every semester so that I can afford my apartment, and have enough money to eat. I applied for financial aid hoping that things would be easier, and that I wouldn't have to break my back working so many hours while trying to complete a CS degree. HAHAHAHAHA. That's pretty much what the financial aid office said to me. I'm white and male, and therefore don't qualify for approx. 60% of the scholarships offered by the school, and the federal aid offered was a 1500$ unsubsidized loan. This means that I have another semester of 14 hour days to look forward to. I know not a single person with "minority" status that has to work as hard as I do. I do not mean to sound bigoted, because i'm not. I am thankful for what I have, but it disgusts me to think that if I were another color that I would have damn near a free ride.
The boot screen. While it is a bit cool, and for newbies a savior to be sure (what new user wants to read all the kernel messages?), but it DRIVES ME INSANE.
You can't watch the boot screen, so you never know what's screwing up! AHHHHHHHH.
The only proprietary thing about SuSE are it's setup tools, and all you "real" linux users don't need them. (YaST, sax)There is commercial software on the CD, but by default it is NOT installed, and you have a choice.
As for the microsoft comment, why don't you take a look at all the commercial, proprietary software that is RedHat "only" and tell me which is worse.
The graphics subsystem in NT prior to version 4 was just awful. It was SLOOOOOOOOW, and kind of incapable. 4 made it a lot faster, but also introduced blue screens for video drivers, which I had not previously seen.
which won't let you do any of the above when a game crashes and takes the keyboard/screen with it. you get real warm and fuzzy with the reset button. If your POS brand-name machine even has one anymore.
I was under the impression that the shuttle uses 6502's (well, later models) because they were the only CPU's that are currently manufactured to withstand the heat generated by reentry.
YaST is very cool. It lacks some functionality that I would personally like to see, and is a bit klunky at times - but it whips Linuxconf by a lot.
And yes, the source _IS_ included on the CDROM. You can hack at it to your heart's content, and you can even freely distribute it - AS LONG AS it is NOT FOR PROFIT. You cannot make money off of their setup/install tool.
It seems to me that they are literally one step ahead of redhat - with the new distro being pretty much based off it and all.
Having lived in Texas for at least 90% of my life, including the this most current governorship of the little Bush, I can fondly say he sucks.
He has done nothing but spout his moral values and insistance that we all abide by them, and accomplished nothing while in office. I am quite aware of the fact that Texas politics are more often than not just used as a springboard, but this makes me sick to my stomache. Ann Richards was smeared because she was divorced and a recovering alcoholic. She, however, was able to show that she cared not only for herself (re:alcoholism), but for her state. At least she got something done.
Bush is just riding poppa's coattails, and has wasted this state's time and money, and I for one am sick of it.
Being a long time RedHat user, I grew very, very disgusted with it. my first distro was Slackware, then I moved to RedHat 3.0, then 4.0, 4.2, 5.0, and then 5.2.
I just bought S.u.S.E. 6.1, and it kicks redhat's ass. No two ways about it.
There is something wrong with your machine then. I have a p133, and it runs fine. No performance issues (except for using the background manager to swap 6mb backgrounds in and out. it doesn't like that much.) and my copy of 1.1pre2 has been running for almost 27 days STRAIGHT with no problems.
Gnome is the one that inflates version numbers...
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I don't know what you're talking about wrt KDE's stability. I've been running it since Beta1, and now have gotten up to 1.1pre2, and will be downloading v1.1 tonight. In this time (over a year now) I have seen not only it's feature list, but it's stability grow with every release. I can personally attest to the service it has provided me. I've been through at least fifteen different window managers, WindowMaker being my favorite. I've even tried to compile the last couple (two, maybe three) point release of gnome, and it has never worked. KDE has compiled and installed out of the box every time, and as run with no problems. Political viewpoints aside, KDE provides so much more to the end user, with so much less of a hassle. I have to upgrade so much stuff before I can even hope to run the new gnome point release it's not even funny. And I have a RedHat 5.0 system, an install that's not even six months old. Tell me somewthing isn't wrong with this picture.
That said, I cheer on the KDE folks whenever I can. I have nothing against gnome, other than the fact that it requires about a billion times more _Stuff_ (libraries/etc) to run and has never completed a compile on my machine. I wish their project well, but KDE is here today.
You may make fun of Microsoft's "Where do you want to go today?" campaign, but in the long run that's all that really matters. We have a working solution today with KDE, so why not take advantage of that? If gnome ends up being somehow superior, I am quite sure it will take it's place above KDE - but that day isn't today.
They're ugly, fussy, and damned near impossible to upgrade unless you purchase everything from Compaq. I now refuse to work on them. If someone brings one to me I'll tell them to bring somewhere else, because I don't need that headache.
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Quite correct. Of all the furniture (matresses, chairs, desks, etc.) that I had in my dorm room, it was ALL manufactured by the Texas prison system.
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Lufkin will probably be getting cable within the next few months, but not Nacogdoches.
TCA suck ass.
I am in very much the same situation as you, and it angers me to think about it. My family is what's considered "middle-class", and white. I am also male. I attend a small, inexpensive state-funded university in Texas (SFA) and for the first time this semester I have had to apply for financial aid. My sister graduated from high school this past spring, and she will be starting at the University of Texas in the fall. I also happen to have a two-year-old brother, and in case anyone reading this doesn't know - babies are freaking expensive. As you can imagine, with 15 years left on the mortgage, a car payment (the last car died a horrible death), two tuition payments, and a baby things are TIGHT. As it is, I work 30-50 hours a week while taking 15 hours of classes every semester so that I can afford my apartment, and have enough money to eat. I applied for financial aid hoping that things would be easier, and that I wouldn't have to break my back working so many hours while trying to complete a CS degree. HAHAHAHAHA. That's pretty much what the financial aid office said to me. I'm white and male, and therefore don't qualify for approx. 60% of the scholarships offered by the school, and the federal aid offered was a 1500$ unsubsidized loan. This means that I have another semester of 14 hour days to look forward to. I know not a single person with "minority" status that has to work as hard as I do. I do not mean to sound bigoted, because i'm not. I am thankful for what I have, but it disgusts me to think that if I were another color that I would have damn near a free ride.
Haha. yeah, right.
Windows 95 has protected memory ONLY on win32 apps, and barely at that. Windows crashes itself.
I have one minor grip against Caldera.
The boot screen. While it is a bit cool, and for newbies a savior to be sure (what new user wants to read all the kernel messages?), but it DRIVES ME INSANE.
You can't watch the boot screen, so you never know what's screwing up!
AHHHHHHHH.
We now return to our regular program.
- no protection from an application crashing the OS (Ha, MacOS is still stuck here :)
HA- so is windows 9x!
:)
Please.
The only proprietary thing about SuSE are it's setup tools, and all you "real" linux users don't need them. (YaST, sax)There is commercial software on the CD, but by default it is NOT installed, and you have a choice.
As for the microsoft comment, why don't you take a look at all the commercial, proprietary software that is RedHat "only" and tell me which is worse.
The graphics subsystem in NT prior to version 4 was just awful. It was SLOOOOOOOOW, and kind of incapable. 4 made it a lot faster, but also introduced blue screens for video drivers, which I had not previously seen.
which won't let you do any of the above when a game crashes and takes the keyboard/screen with it.
you get real warm and fuzzy with the reset button. If your POS brand-name machine even has one anymore.
But that was a design feature, right?
I was under the impression that the shuttle uses 6502's (well, later models) because they were the only CPU's that are currently manufactured to withstand the heat generated by reentry.
But it's been a while, and I could be wrong.
YaST is very cool. It lacks some functionality that I would personally like to see, and is a bit klunky at times - but it whips Linuxconf by a lot.
And yes, the source _IS_ included on the CDROM. You can hack at it to your heart's content, and you can even freely distribute it - AS LONG AS it is NOT FOR PROFIT. You cannot make money off of their setup/install tool.
It seems to me that they are literally one step ahead of redhat - with the new distro being pretty much based off it and all.
Having lived in Texas for at least 90% of my life, including the this most current governorship of the little Bush, I can fondly say he sucks.
He has done nothing but spout his moral values and insistance that we all abide by them, and accomplished nothing while in office. I am quite aware of the fact that Texas politics are more often than not just used as a springboard, but this makes me sick to my stomache. Ann Richards was smeared because she was divorced and a recovering alcoholic. She, however, was able to show that she cared not only for herself (re:alcoholism), but for her state. At least she got something done.
Bush is just riding poppa's coattails, and has wasted this state's time and money, and I for one am sick of it.
"A nation that exchanges liberty for temporary security neither haves, nor deservers either. "
I can be a nitpick, sorry.
Being a long time RedHat user, I grew very, very disgusted with it. my first distro was Slackware, then I moved to RedHat 3.0, then 4.0, 4.2, 5.0, and then 5.2.
I just bought S.u.S.E. 6.1, and it kicks redhat's ass. No two ways about it.
There is something wrong with your machine then.
I have a p133, and it runs fine. No performance issues (except for using the background manager to swap 6mb backgrounds in and out. it doesn't like that much.) and my copy of 1.1pre2 has been running for almost 27 days STRAIGHT with no problems.
I don't know what you're talking about wrt KDE's stability. I've been running it since Beta1, and now have gotten up to 1.1pre2, and will be downloading v1.1 tonight. In this time (over a year now) I have seen not only it's feature list, but it's stability grow with every release. I can personally attest to the service it has provided me. I've been through at least fifteen different window managers, WindowMaker being my favorite. I've even tried to compile the last couple (two, maybe three) point release of gnome, and it has never worked. KDE has compiled and installed out of the box every time, and as run with no problems. Political viewpoints aside, KDE provides so much more to the end user, with so much less of a hassle. I have to upgrade so much stuff before I can even hope to run the new gnome point release it's not even funny. And I have a RedHat 5.0 system, an install that's not even six months old. Tell me somewthing isn't wrong with this picture.
That said, I cheer on the KDE folks whenever I can. I have nothing against gnome, other than the fact that it requires about a billion times more _Stuff_ (libraries/etc) to run and has never completed a compile on my machine. I wish their project well, but KDE is here today.
You may make fun of Microsoft's "Where do you want to go today?" campaign, but in the long run that's all that really matters. We have a working solution today with KDE, so why not take advantage of that? If gnome ends up being somehow superior, I am quite sure it will take it's place above KDE - but that day isn't today.
Coming from a judge in a state where county judges aren't even required to have a law degree, not even legal training.
Get real.
Strange things with their networking code? Can you elaborate?
The fact that it's slow as shit without one.
Working on Compaqs makes me want to vomit.
They're ugly, fussy, and damned near impossible to upgrade unless you purchase everything from Compaq. I now refuse to work on them. If someone brings one to me I'll tell them to bring somewhere else, because I don't need that headache.
Quite correct. Of all the furniture (matresses, chairs, desks, etc.) that I had in my dorm room, it was ALL manufactured by the Texas prison system.