Your problems seem to be mainly RPMs.. this is a braindead packaging scheme. Try Debian, it has a much more full-featured and foolproof packaging system. Linux is screwed for Joe-ex-Windows-"power"-user for at least another year. We are trying to make it simpler for you... please be patient .
You probably shouldn't swear so much...
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It really makes you sound like an idiot. Just some neighborly advice... I know you are probably NOT an idiot. .
You don't really need a DE... unless you are dependent on dragging and dropping. While I'll admit that a document-centric paradigm is the "right way" and the way of the future, I am in no way dependent on it. .
What does.tar.gz have to do with Slack? Slackware distro files are.tgz sure, but they are binaries nonetheless... Source code is compiled the same way on any Linux distro...
And did you actually call him Linux to his face? .
Except *all* laptop modems are winmodems!
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Uhhh...unless you want a cellular link, what's the point of a laptop modem? You have to be tied down to the phone cord anyway right? SO GET A REAL MODEM AND SCREW IT INTO YOUR SERIAL PORT WHEN YOU NEED TO GET ONLINE!:) heheh, sorry it's just that I've been so confused for so long as to why anyone would want a laptop modem. .
There's this new invention. By the way. It's called the COMMA. If I could only figure out how to use it. I could write compound and complete sentences. .
why? I hate to have to reach for the alt key when I arrow back to the previous page. Oh... and Ctrl-V / Ctrl-C work like normal.. duh. BTW, how can you mention Netscape and STANDARD in the same sentence without cracking up? bwahahaha Used the BLINK tag lately?
I've been using 3.51 every day for months now.. it's crashed twice... Netscape has crashed three times and I use Opera more... Unfortunately, Opera adheres to W3C standards and doesn't render bad HTML very well...;) .
Personally, I can and will use whatever apps I see fit... I have no need for a DE but even if I did what's to stop me from using a QT-based Opera with Gnome? Or Mozilla with KDE? What's the problem with a commercial app using QT? That's what QT was designed for... As long as they don't link it with other people's GPL'ed code and try to distribute the binaries;) .
Clunky? Try getting rid of all the toolbars and just using keystrokes... tres svelte! Z= back one page X= forward one page Q= back one link A= forward one link F2 = type in an address F5 = reload etc., etc.
Personally, I find keystrokes much quicker and more convenient than pointy-clicky.... that's why use linux when I can!
And Opera is MUCH quicker rendering pages than those OTHER browsers:) Not to mention that it actually makes efficient use of it's cache... .
Netscape is the only program I use in Linux that is consistently ill-tempered... It's statically linked with Motif which makes it a 11 MB monster that crashes, takes 20 seconds to load, and sometimes decides to take off with the cpu just to run an animated gif or something. I will be sooooo glad when 5.0 comes out.
make, gdb, gcc, profile, etc., and a good shell are much more flexible, especially for large projects. It should be taught in school. gvim is a very nice text editor if you take the time to learn it... all Linux really needs is time for the toolkits to develop good GUI-building apps and a few good books to be written and real programmers will start to realize what a clean and efficient tool you have, especially when you have access to ALL the code:^D .
The only thing holding back the computer industry is the proprietary source code. If every "OS" had the ability to use the same filesystems and binaries, they could compete on an equal footing like DOS once did and Linux and *BSD do today.
I'm sure Gateway, Apple, Be, etc. ( not to mention all the *nix folks;) would love to get their hands on the source for Win32... the promised Amigas would run Windows Office apps fast enough just in emulation. It would then be an attractive platform for consumers, thus making it accessable to developers who want to take advantage of something as reliable and lean as QNX.
What if everyone freed their code? sigh... I guess a competition of merit is not the most desirable situation for the greedy... too bad for the rest of us.
I am impressed... it seems the/. readership has grown up a little bit! Bless the Gnome and KDE developers both... thanks for all the hard work you guys do to bring Linux to the masses. (Personally, a DE just gets in my way). .
Slashdot Mirror
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hmmm, I'm sorry you have an empty life.
Have fun!
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Your problems seem to be mainly RPMs.. this is a braindead packaging scheme. Try Debian, it has a much more full-featured and foolproof packaging system.
Linux is screwed for Joe-ex-Windows-"power"-user for at least another year. We are trying to make it simpler for you... please be patient
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It really makes you sound like an idiot.
Just some neighborly advice... I know you are probably NOT an idiot.
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You don't really need a DE... unless you are dependent on dragging and dropping.
While I'll admit that a document-centric paradigm is the "right way" and the way of the future, I am in no way dependent on it.
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How many home computers is Linux in?
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What does .tar.gz have to do with Slack? Slackware distro files are .tgz sure, but they are binaries nonetheless...
Source code is compiled the same way on any Linux distro...
Say the Slashdot URL out loud... aytch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org... get it?
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And you get the award for the stupidest post in this thread!
Congratulations, thanks for playing!
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And did you actually call him Linux to his face?
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Uhhh...unless you want a cellular link, what's the point of a laptop modem? You have to be tied down to the phone cord anyway right? SO GET A REAL MODEM AND SCREW IT INTO YOUR SERIAL PORT WHEN YOU NEED TO GET ONLINE! :)
heheh, sorry it's just that I've been so confused for so long as to why anyone would want a laptop modem.
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There's this new invention. By the way. It's called the COMMA. If I could only figure out how to use it. I could write compound and complete sentences.
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I'd have to wait to see MS-Linux before passing judgement... who knows it could be good!
But seriously, at least it would be linux and not DOS/NT
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Yes. SSL 1 & 2.
It is better in my opinion unless you visit a lot of sites with bad HTML (i.e. ZDNet), in which case it may render them funky.
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why? I hate to have to reach for the alt key when I arrow back to the previous page.
Oh... and Ctrl-V / Ctrl-C work like normal.. duh.
BTW, how can you mention Netscape and STANDARD in the same sentence without cracking up? bwahahaha
Used the BLINK tag lately?
I've been using 3.51 every day for months now.. it's crashed twice... Netscape has crashed three times and I use Opera more... ;)
Unfortunately, Opera adheres to W3C standards and doesn't render bad HTML very well...
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What are smoking? Can I have some?
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Personally, I can and will use whatever apps I see fit... I have no need for a DE but even if I did what's to stop me from using a QT-based Opera with Gnome? Or Mozilla with KDE?
What's the problem with a commercial app using QT? That's what QT was designed for...
As long as they don't link it with other people's GPL'ed code and try to distribute the binaries
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KDE may not run but Opera definitely will... it kicks ass on a 486... even in Win95.
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Clunky?
:) Not to mention that it actually makes efficient use of it's cache...
Try getting rid of all the toolbars and just using keystrokes... tres svelte!
Z= back one page
X= forward one page
Q= back one link
A= forward one link
F2 = type in an address
F5 = reload
etc., etc.
Personally, I find keystrokes much quicker and more convenient than pointy-clicky.... that's why use linux when I can!
And Opera is MUCH quicker rendering pages than those OTHER browsers
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Netscape is the only program I use in Linux that is consistently ill-tempered...
It's statically linked with Motif which makes it a 11 MB monster that crashes, takes 20 seconds to load,
and sometimes decides to take off with the cpu just to run an animated gif or something.
I will be sooooo glad when 5.0 comes out.
make, gdb, gcc, profile, etc., and a good shell are much more flexible, especially for large projects. It should be taught in school. :^D
gvim is a very nice text editor if you take the time to learn it... all Linux really needs is time for the toolkits to develop good GUI-building apps and a few good books to be written and real programmers will start to realize what a clean and efficient tool you have, especially when you have access to ALL the code
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The only thing holding back the computer industry is the proprietary source code. If every "OS" had the ability to use the same filesystems and binaries, they could compete on an equal footing like DOS once did and Linux and *BSD do today.
I'm sure Gateway, Apple, Be, etc. ( not to mention all the *nix folks ;) would love to get their hands on the source for Win32... the promised Amigas would run Windows Office apps fast enough just in emulation. It would then be an attractive platform for consumers, thus making it accessable to developers who want to take advantage of something as reliable and lean as QNX.
What if everyone freed their code?
sigh...
I guess a competition of merit is not the most desirable situation for the greedy... too bad for the rest of us.
I am impressed... it seems the /. readership has grown up a little bit!
Bless the Gnome and KDE developers both... thanks for all the hard work you guys do to bring Linux to the masses. (Personally, a DE just gets in my way).
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From what I understand these "Windows" printers hook into some Win95 code... It is up to M$ to release the specs.
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Well... except for Netscape... but at least that's "open source" (assuming Free Software == GPL)
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