You truly are an idiot. I've been reading your comments with my jaw dropped to the table, how can anyone be so narrow sited?
You seem to think that iBiblio/metalabs is just the site that hosts the LDP. They do much more than this, they host tons of software much of it open source and linux related. They do a great service for our community, and free of cost I might add.
If you've got a complaint about the LDP take it up with the LDP, or better yet start your own project. People like you really hurt our community, you go around taking and taking, then instead of giving back you just complain.
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Qt Going GPL
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That is the most idiotic thing I've heard in a while. Trolltech's success deals a very very large amount on KDE's. Whos going to be writing programs with QT if KDE goes under? Trolltech knows that if KDE is on most linux desktops then commercial companies wanting to write closed source programs will probably want to choose KDE for more users, and hence will have to pay for the commercial license. Whos going to buy a commercial license to develop with QT if GNOME is more popular?
I understand how the KDE developers and loyal users feel, they feel that instead of the GNOME developers trying to do their best at coding so that people will use GNOME for GNOME's merits, they just threw the towel in and decided to get Sun and HP to back them so people will think that GNOME is the defacto desktop.
However, I don't think that's the case at all. Perhaps I'm missing something but the GNOME developers didn't go out and make a deal with Sun and HP. Sun and HP decided they wanted to back GNOME for their own reasons. That's the thing about GPL code, anyone who wants to work on it can, and if a big company wants to hire people to work on code, thats their business.
Is this person saying that if a large company wanted to hire developers to send in patches to KDE, that KDE shouldn't let them? That it would be selling out? I think we'd be seeing a very different side of this person had Sun chosen KDE.
Of course I might be missing something (seems like all comments end this way:) Oh and as an extra note, I can't wait to have star office components integrated into GNOME, that'll be great. Yet I have a feeling in my gut that it won't go through that well, maybe its still the mozilla aftertaste in my mouth that makes me say that.
I think you're missing the point. this isn't a distribution for gaming, its a distribution to put on gaming and entertainment devices. So it will be just whats needed for those systems to run, none of the stuff that is needed for desktops or servers. So stuff like sendmail obviously won't be included.
I'm sick of everyone always bashing RMS. Without him standing up against stuff like this your own free software and open source movments would crumble. Businesses would slowly change the meaning of the words and you would all just sit there shrugging your shoulders and letting it happen.
Brain Dead choice -- let's be mozilla sheep!
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I bet you regret hitting the submit button.
Seriously, did you even think about how stupid you would sound comparing a whole desktop environment with a very small window manager? I'm guessing no.
Can someone give a little more details about what E is missing than "Functionality"? I use E as my windowmanager and it does just about everything. I can use dockable apps, iconify, shade, have multiple desktops. It even moves the windows the best I've seen, stopping for an amount of pixels before going over another window. I also think that pagers can be implimented by the theme makers too, I dont know why you would want one though.
Considering E could probably clone the look and feel of any window manager I dont know what you are talking about. All I can think of is you havent even tried it and just need something to bitch at. That has to be the lamest excuse though.
If you actually have a real problem with missing functionality and say what it is I`ll STFU.
I don't see why windows would have a problem. I think it will use the one that you select in the display settings or whatever. I've heard that windows 98 supports more than one monitor, might want to check that out.
My favorite is this: "Internal data structures limit NT to using a maximum of 32 processors, but licensing limitations usually restrict the number of processors to 8 or fewer."
HAHAHA I just don't understand why you would want to use this operating system.
I'm using 0.99.8.1 of gnome-libs/gnome-core and have found that putting: /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment & /usr/local/bin/gnome-session in my.xsession file (file differs with distros) will start up enlightenment and still use gnome session management, although I don't know if it is as complete as if the session manager was starting enlightenment.
The reason I didn't have enlightenment start through gnome-session is I couldn't figure out what options were needed for enlightenment to be used with session management. For example, icewm is the default window manager in the default session script and it gets called like this: icewm -clientId default2 -smid default3 I could not figure out what options to give enlightenment and the people in #e on efnet didn't seem to understand my question. Hopefully someone on slashdot might know, otherwise maybe I should email raster.
Just thought I'd write in to say that mine doesn't skip at all either. I think Rob must have a lemon or something else is wrong. I only wish he would have tried others before he badmouthed the rio. He does have a point about needing more space though, 32 megs doesn't cut it and I don't feel like spending $80 on 32 more.
But what hardware do you need to do video confrencing? A lot of people have frame grabbers like the WinTV card, but which cards allow you to output video?
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You truly are an idiot. I've been reading your comments with my jaw dropped to the table, how can anyone be so narrow sited?
You seem to think that iBiblio/metalabs is just the site that hosts the LDP. They do much more than this, they host tons of software much of it open source and linux related. They do a great service for our community, and free of cost I might add.
If you've got a complaint about the LDP take it up with the LDP, or better yet start your own project. People like you really hurt our community, you go around taking and taking, then instead of giving back you just complain.
That is the most idiotic thing I've heard in a while. Trolltech's success deals a very very large amount on KDE's. Whos going to be writing programs with QT if KDE goes under? Trolltech knows that if KDE is on most linux desktops then commercial companies wanting to write closed source programs will probably want to choose KDE for more users, and hence will have to pay for the commercial license. Whos going to buy a commercial license to develop with QT if GNOME is more popular?
I understand how the KDE developers and loyal users feel, they feel that instead of the GNOME developers trying to do their best at coding so that people will use GNOME for GNOME's merits, they just threw the towel in and decided to get Sun and HP to back them so people will think that GNOME is the defacto desktop.
:) Oh and as an extra note, I can't wait to have star office components integrated into GNOME, that'll be great. Yet I have a feeling in my gut that it won't go through that well, maybe its still the mozilla aftertaste in my mouth that makes me say that.
However, I don't think that's the case at all. Perhaps I'm missing something but the GNOME developers didn't go out and make a deal with Sun and HP. Sun and HP decided they wanted to back GNOME for their own reasons. That's the thing about GPL code, anyone who wants to work on it can, and if a big company wants to hire people to work on code, thats their business.
Is this person saying that if a large company wanted to hire developers to send in patches to KDE, that KDE shouldn't let them? That it would be selling out? I think we'd be seeing a very different side of this person had Sun chosen KDE.
Of course I might be missing something (seems like all comments end this way
I think you're missing the point. this isn't a distribution for gaming, its a distribution to put on gaming and entertainment devices. So it will be just whats needed for those systems to run, none of the stuff that is needed for desktops or servers. So stuff like sendmail obviously won't be included.
Yeah, my old ass Jackie Chan movies on dvd and they're unencrypted. I can watch them in linux without the help of decss, and you better believe I do.
I'm sick of everyone always bashing RMS. Without him standing up against stuff like this your own free software and open source movments would crumble. Businesses would slowly change the meaning of the words and you would all just sit there shrugging your shoulders and letting it happen.
I bet you regret hitting the submit button.
Seriously, did you even think about how stupid you would sound comparing a whole desktop environment with a very small window manager? I'm guessing no.
Right click on the titlebar go: Window Size > Size > Available Max Size Toggle.
Should work, explore the other things in there too.
Can someone give a little more details about what E is missing than "Functionality"? I use E as my windowmanager and it does just about everything. I can use dockable apps, iconify, shade, have multiple desktops. It even moves the windows the best I've seen, stopping for an amount of pixels before going over another window. I also think that pagers can be implimented by the theme makers too, I dont know why you would want one though.
Considering E could probably clone the look and feel of any window manager I dont know what you are talking about. All I can think of is you havent even tried it and just need something to bitch at. That has to be the lamest excuse though.
If you actually have a real problem with missing functionality and say what it is I`ll STFU.
Wow, I just noticed after reading your post that you can drag URLs from netscape, that is freaking cool.
PS. You rock tigert I love your artwork.
I don't see why windows would have a problem. I think it will use the one that you select in the display settings or whatever. I've heard that windows 98 supports more than one monitor, might want to check that out.
My favorite is this:
"Internal data structures limit NT to using a maximum of 32 processors, but licensing limitations usually restrict the number of processors to 8 or fewer."
HAHAHA
I just don't understand why you would want to use this operating system.
I'm using 0.99.8.1 of gnome-libs/gnome-core and have found that putting: .xsession file (file differs with distros) will start up enlightenment and still use gnome session management, although I don't know if it is as complete as if the session manager was starting enlightenment.
/usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment &
/usr/local/bin/gnome-session
in my
The reason I didn't have enlightenment start through gnome-session is I couldn't figure out what options were needed for enlightenment to be used with session management. For example, icewm is the default window manager in the default session script and it gets called like this:
icewm -clientId default2 -smid default3
I could not figure out what options to give enlightenment and the people in #e on efnet didn't seem to understand my question.
Hopefully someone on slashdot might know, otherwise maybe I should email raster.
Just thought I'd write in to say that mine doesn't skip at all either. I think Rob must have a lemon or something else is wrong. I only wish he would have tried others before he badmouthed the rio. He does have a point about needing more space though, 32 megs doesn't cut it and I don't feel like spending $80 on 32 more.
But what hardware do you need to do video confrencing? A lot of people have frame grabbers like the WinTV card, but which cards allow you to output video?