Because Slashdot is infamous for its KDE-fanboyism. I noticed once in a discussion about a GNOME-only distro, KDE fanboys were very vocal about (OMG IT DOESN'T COME WITH KDE!!11!!!) while bashing GNOME at the same time. Notice there are many KDE-centric or even KDE-only distros out there, and GNOME fans don't say anything about that. Some people just DON'T LIKE KDE. It's the sad truth, but grow up and accept it.
According to this article on LWN.net there was a patch by Dave Miller that changed the DMA API (see the Changelog for 2.6.5, from Dave Miller submitted through Andrew Morton) which *might* break binary drivers. All the in-kernel drivers are fixed, but the out-of-tree stuff might screw up. Just a heads up.
If XP has eye candy then I'm superman. The first thing I do on any install is take away that snot green interface and replace it with the classic interface.
The proper name for what you casually referred to as "that snot green interface" is "Microsoft Crayon Puke (tm)". Get it right:)
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Let the masturbation jokes begin!!!
I wonder if it works in Gnome. I don't even have KDE installed.
Because Slashdot is infamous for its KDE-fanboyism. I noticed once in a discussion about a GNOME-only distro, KDE fanboys were very vocal about (OMG IT DOESN'T COME WITH KDE!!11!!!) while bashing GNOME at the same time. Notice there are many KDE-centric or even KDE-only distros out there, and GNOME fans don't say anything about that. Some people just DON'T LIKE KDE. It's the sad truth, but grow up and accept it.
Maybe it was just to shut up those whiny BSD folk who keep complaining "why was this under Linux when it runs under BSD too?"
Ooh, and Scott McNealy as Saruman (pretends to support open source, then strikes a deal with the Dark Lord).
Linux 2.6 does not obliterate FreeBSD.
The last benchmarks I saw (Linux 2.6 vrs. FreeBSD 5.x) proved them to be simular performance wise.
Links? Citations? Anything to back up this claim?
No?
Didn't think so.
The odd number at the end looks so...odd :)
I guess I've been too used to the Linux kernel "even is stable" noclamenture that a version number like "1.7" looks like a development branch.
According to this article on LWN.net there was a patch by Dave Miller that changed the DMA API (see the Changelog for 2.6.5, from Dave Miller submitted through Andrew Morton) which *might* break binary drivers. All the in-kernel drivers are fixed, but the out-of-tree stuff might screw up. Just a heads up.
If XP has eye candy then I'm superman. The first thing I do on any install is take away that snot green interface and replace it with the classic interface.
:)
The proper name for what you casually referred to as "that snot green interface" is "Microsoft Crayon Puke (tm)". Get it right