My friends using SuSE swear by YaST, suse's configuration tool. I have heard (also from elsewhere, not just from these friends), that it is very user-friendly, yet powerful.
Ah, yes, now I remember - when I got bored, I switched into edit mode, and felt like a god when I created vast areas of empty space by pushing a button, and moving mouse to look around.:)
If you emerge mplayer, you will se that it ignores your USE-flags because there were so many gentoo-users fucking up their compiles using too heavy use-flags, and then comming to them crying for help.
You're wrong - USE-flags are not being ignored
Gentoo build filters out crazy CFLAGS (namely -fPIE -fPIC -fstack-protector -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -msse2 -falign-functions), and in case of x86, changes -O3 and -O0 to -O2.
I'm refuse to feed this anonymous and cowardly troll, who would like to see me ritually sacrificed for expressing an opinion different from his own, while being pussy enough to post anonymously.
Thanks,
A twenty-four years old coder/network admin who voiced his own opinion
We used to play it quite a lot over LAN here - some 4-5 players, most of the time. Don't get me wrong, it _is_ fun, but there's still the feeling that something's not quite right.
The player weapon models, for example - those made me feel like playing shareware, like I wrote above.
Indeed, I wanted to try Arch on a spare P166 (48MB RAM), but alas, it's just i586, whereas Arch has packages compiled for i686.
I ended up installing Gentoo on the poor box - from stage 2, and it took just a bit over 24 hours (of course, with help of distcc and one other box:) ).
You can "drag and drop" files on linux as well - think KDE or Gnome. When I asked my sister if she feels comfortable with konqueror for disk browsing, she said it's even better than "the thing that was there before":)
Linux has been living in my home for some 2 years now already. Me and my father are both linux-positive and my sister and mother are about equally happy with linux, as they used to be with windows.
This is of course after setting up their accounts properly, which took few "this doesn't work for me" calls. Praise the ssh, I was able to fix it from my dorm computer.:)
Of course, YMMV, it all depends on the people.
"Prettier" is not an objective argument - you might like it more than KDE, the next person might prefer KDE, and the next person can swear upon f.e. fltk toolkit.
I don't know Gnome too well (I started on Mandrake, which is KDE-ish and then moved on to Gentoo and WindowMaker), but I heard it's more themeable, which is a good thing.
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There are far greater talents inside the Gentoo developer community than drobbins...
[joke]yes, a nice large LOTR poster would be great[/joke]
So, some of those emails about african guys needing to transfer huge sums of money was actually real?
As if this karma bullshit was actually good for something. He just forgot the links. Get it?
My friends using SuSE swear by YaST, suse's configuration tool. I have heard (also from elsewhere, not just from these friends), that it is very user-friendly, yet powerful.
Their DNS still hasn't propagated all the way to me... Guess I'll wait. Thanks anyway. :)
The site seems down. Here's Google's cached copy:w w.wddg-online.com/+wddg-online&hl=en
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:FoR5_0KV-awJ:w
Ah, yes, now I remember - when I got bored, I switched into edit mode, and felt like a god when I created vast areas of empty space by pushing a button, and moving mouse to look around. :)
You're wrong - USE-flags are not being ignored
Gentoo build filters out crazy CFLAGS (namely -fPIE -fPIC -fstack-protector -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -msse2 -falign-functions), and in case of x86, changes -O3 and -O0 to -O2.
My point exactly - the engine looks very promising, but it's not being utilized fully yet.
I'm refuse to feed this anonymous and cowardly troll, who would like to see me ritually sacrificed for expressing an opinion different from his own, while being pussy enough to post anonymously.
Thanks,
A twenty-four years old coder/network admin who voiced his own opinion
We used to play it quite a lot over LAN here - some 4-5 players, most of the time. Don't get me wrong, it _is_ fun, but there's still the feeling that something's not quite right.
The player weapon models, for example - those made me feel like playing shareware, like I wrote above.
Yes, but the game itself feels like shareware from early 90s.
In soviet Russia, Connectiva acquires Mandrake!
Is "survival of the fittest" motivation enough?
Indeed, I wanted to try Arch on a spare P166 (48MB RAM), but alas, it's just i586, whereas Arch has packages compiled for i686.
I ended up installing Gentoo on the poor box - from stage 2, and it took just a bit over 24 hours (of course, with help of distcc and one other box :) ).
Well, you can't say Gnome is not trying. :)
This looks like drunk /. comment. An aspiring member of the new Linux Alcoholics Anonymous?
You can "drag and drop" files on linux as well - think KDE or Gnome. When I asked my sister if she feels comfortable with konqueror for disk browsing, she said it's even better than "the thing that was there before" :)
Linux has been living in my home for some 2 years now already. Me and my father are both linux-positive and my sister and mother are about equally happy with linux, as they used to be with windows. This is of course after setting up their accounts properly, which took few "this doesn't work for me" calls. Praise the ssh, I was able to fix it from my dorm computer. :)
Of course, YMMV, it all depends on the people.
"Prettier" is not an objective argument - you might like it more than KDE, the next person might prefer KDE, and the next person can swear upon f.e. fltk toolkit. I don't know Gnome too well (I started on Mandrake, which is KDE-ish and then moved on to Gentoo and WindowMaker), but I heard it's more themeable, which is a good thing.
I've had only good experience with previous Mandrake Move livecds. It JustWorks(tm) and choice of software is quite useful.
Let's just hope that these changes will already be incorporated in Linux binaries (which may actually be released someday, one never knows...).