Uh, KDE does that too. Descriptive name first, with name in parantheses.
As in:
Web Browser (Konqueror)
News Reader (Knode)
Mail Client (Kmail)
Download Manager (KGet)
etc.
What the hell could be easier than just typing the name of the app? No searching, no browsing, no clicking, no dragging, just type it, once. You're done.
If you can't handle clicking the terminal icon and typing two simple words, there's even a gui with the list of all possible things to install. You check the programs you want and click install.
It's MUCH, MUCH easier to install things in linux than in any other OS.
It might be totally ridiculous, but it's been done many times before (Jerusalem, for example.) If what you say is true, perhaps the british have learned something from their previous escapades.
Since this recent update, has anyone had any problems connecting to www.foxnews.com? It opens in Exploder, but FireFox can't seem to even detect the server.
MUCH easier to middle-click, have the link open in the background, and keep going down the page. that way you can mark a dozen links to look at later without losing your place in the page you're at.
Right-click-menu is MUCH less convenient and more intrusive, then the page opens in front, forcing you to alt-tab or click back. plus IE opens the page in some stupid size usually, so you have to maximize. The tab experience is MUCH MUCH smoother. It's like the difference between a scroll wheel mouse and a normal one -- sure, you can get by just as well with arrow keys and the scroll bar on screen, but once you've tried the alternative you never want to go back.
Just last week I finally decided to give Gentoo a shot and, although I like a lot of things about it, I had to chuckle a little at the fact that most of the packages are a minor version or two behind my Debian unstable systems. I always figured Gentoo would be ahead.*
Are you crazy? I've never seen a release of any package, no matter how minor, that wasn't in the portage tree within a few hours. You probably have "testing" packages masked, as they are by default. Turn off your masking, and emerge sync more often.
[* OT -- the one other Gentoo weakness I've found thus far is that it seems like it will be more fragile across upgrades. Gentoo users are cautious about upgrades,
WHAT? Most gentoo users I know are upgrade addicts -- every day, twice a day if they're bored. I mean, it only takes "emerge sync" followed by "emerge --update world." And that's why you never need to reinstall gentoo -- a simple emerge makes it identical to the latest release.
whereas Debian unstable users tend to upgrade constantly and without much concern. That factor will probably lead to my Gentoo system lagging even further behind my Debian unstable systems. Ah, well, nothing's perfect. ]
You cause me much bemusement. I don't use gentoo, being a Gobo person myself, but your words were ridiculous.
Xorg works better than XFree86, considering it's just the last good-licensed XFree86 with a lot of bugfixes that the xfree team never got around to putting it.
stop being a moron.
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i didn't call it a gnu distro. The users who have learned their way around bash, however, equate that to linux, when it is definitely gnu, since there's not a line of linux code in OS X.
Uh, it makes a HUGE difference. Downloading a full movie in less than a minute rather than half an hour.
Yes, I'm a Case student.
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What is a kernel without an OS?
Far less than an OS without a kernel.
You can substitute any POSIX kernel for Linux in a GNU distro and, to the end-user, everything stays pretty much the same. You substitute a different userland on top of the kernel, and everything's vastly different.
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That's exactly the opposite of what stallman's trying to do. He's emphasizing that linux is a kernel, the userland is GNU, and these are not the same.
The blanket use of "Linux" is causing more and more problems. People using Mac OS X, who then switch to a linux distro, say "wow, this is all the same, OS X is sort of just another linux distro!" No, what they're familiar with is GNU, not Linux. Then there's this, and many many other mainstream articles that assume Linus wrote everything that comes in a distro, when in fact the vast majority of user-visible stuff -- the part of the OS that matters to a reviewer -- is GNU. You can throw in another POSIX kernel and, as far as an end-user can tell, the OS is exactly the same.
The confusion gets worse and worse. It really is important to differentiate GNU userland from Linux the kernel, and that's all that RMS is trying to get us to do.
GOTO's are really the equivalent of "ain't" in english.
They're perfectly grammatically correct, but they were overused way too much, and so grammar teachers declared them unilaterally bad.
As a result, they're not used at all even when they're appropriate (for instance, we use the format "Aren't I" instead of "Ain't I" even though "aren't i" is completely wrong!) Even those that are aware that the word has its appropriate use refrain from it, because use of the word now marks one as uneducated.
(incidentally, ain't is properly the contraction of am not. the overuse for all the other forms of be led to an excessive backlash.)
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And in case I wasn't clear, that was a full screen screen shot.
Here's a hint: use the view menu, and turn off the scroll bar, tab bar, and menu bar, then go full screen. ;)
What's the difference between kplayer and kmplayer?
Uh, KDE does that too. Descriptive name first, with name in parantheses.
As in:
Web Browser (Konqueror)
News Reader (Knode)
Mail Client (Kmail)
Download Manager (KGet)
etc.
If you can't handle clicking the terminal icon and typing two simple words, there's even a gui with the list of all possible things to install. You check the programs you want and click install.
It's MUCH, MUCH easier to install things in linux than in any other OS.
And "Mediterranean" means "Surrounded by land," not middle kingdom.
It might be totally ridiculous, but it's been done many times before (Jerusalem, for example.) If what you say is true, perhaps the british have learned something from their previous escapades.
Alsa's OSS emulation works better than native OSS does, in my experience.
So...why would you not try 0.9.1, especially if 0.9 isn't working for you?
That would be a feature.
Right-click-menu is MUCH less convenient and more intrusive, then the page opens in front, forcing you to alt-tab or click back. plus IE opens the page in some stupid size usually, so you have to maximize. The tab experience is MUCH MUCH smoother. It's like the difference between a scroll wheel mouse and a normal one -- sure, you can get by just as well with arrow keys and the scroll bar on screen, but once you've tried the alternative you never want to go back.
open-source. closed-source. As shocking as it may seem, these are not the same.
Are you crazy? I've never seen a release of any package, no matter how minor, that wasn't in the portage tree within a few hours. You probably have "testing" packages masked, as they are by default. Turn off your masking, and emerge sync more often.
[* OT -- the one other Gentoo weakness I've found thus far is that it seems like it will be more fragile across upgrades. Gentoo users are cautious about upgrades,
WHAT? Most gentoo users I know are upgrade addicts -- every day, twice a day if they're bored. I mean, it only takes "emerge sync" followed by "emerge --update world." And that's why you never need to reinstall gentoo -- a simple emerge makes it identical to the latest release.
whereas Debian unstable users tend to upgrade constantly and without much concern. That factor will probably lead to my Gentoo system lagging even further behind my Debian unstable systems. Ah, well, nothing's perfect. ]
You cause me much bemusement. I don't use gentoo, being a Gobo person myself, but your words were ridiculous.
Xorg works better than XFree86, considering it's just the last good-licensed XFree86 with a lot of bugfixes that the xfree team never got around to putting it.
stop being a moron.
i didn't call it a gnu distro. The users who have learned their way around bash, however, equate that to linux, when it is definitely gnu, since there's not a line of linux code in OS X.
You live up to your name.
What the hell? Case has had fiber to the dorm room for about 15 years now.
Uh, it makes a HUGE difference. Downloading a full movie in less than a minute rather than half an hour.
Yes, I'm a Case student.
What is a kernel without an OS?
Far less than an OS without a kernel.
You can substitute any POSIX kernel for Linux in a GNU distro and, to the end-user, everything stays pretty much the same. You substitute a different userland on top of the kernel, and everything's vastly different.
That's exactly the opposite of what stallman's trying to do. He's emphasizing that linux is a kernel, the userland is GNU, and these are not the same.
The blanket use of "Linux" is causing more and more problems. People using Mac OS X, who then switch to a linux distro, say "wow, this is all the same, OS X is sort of just another linux distro!" No, what they're familiar with is GNU, not Linux. Then there's this, and many many other mainstream articles that assume Linus wrote everything that comes in a distro, when in fact the vast majority of user-visible stuff -- the part of the OS that matters to a reviewer -- is GNU. You can throw in another POSIX kernel and, as far as an end-user can tell, the OS is exactly the same.
The confusion gets worse and worse. It really is important to differentiate GNU userland from Linux the kernel, and that's all that RMS is trying to get us to do.
Yes, you would have blurs on the wall instead of lines.
Yes, Case is surrounded by ghetto. Cleveland Heights is only one side.
GOTO's are really the equivalent of "ain't" in english.
They're perfectly grammatically correct, but they were overused way too much, and so grammar teachers declared them unilaterally bad.
As a result, they're not used at all even when they're appropriate (for instance, we use the format "Aren't I" instead of "Ain't I" even though "aren't i" is completely wrong!) Even those that are aware that the word has its appropriate use refrain from it, because use of the word now marks one as uneducated.
(incidentally, ain't is properly the contraction of am not. the overuse for all the other forms of be led to an excessive backlash.)
Today in Internet Kindergarten we learn that what a link says and where the link goes are NOT THE SAME THING.
> Resizeable arrays: D Yes, C++ No
>
> BZZT.
Declaring a new array, copying the data over, and deleting the old one is NOT resizing an array.
> Array bounds checking: D Yes, C++ No
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> BZZT.
Oh? Funny how declaring a 10-element array and writing to element 10 works then.