Absolutely, get this book. I just managed to pick it up for $10 at a local Borders, and I've loved this book since I found it in my high school's library.
The illustrations of the balrog and the dragons are just purely amazing. Never knew that pen-and-ink could get that good.
At the Cleveland Museum of Art, they have this particularly huge German greatsword from the early 16th century. It's about 5'8" in height or so... I'm 6'5" and it comes to just below the shoulder. Oddly enough, it's 8lbs, 12oz. None of the blades in my collection weigh more than 5lbs total, and these are all originals, not the modern reproductions. I'll admit that some of them feel like they're 50lbs after a while, however. Gotta love the way levers work.
Yes, the flame wars have somewhat calmed down which I attribute to the Gnome 1.0 release. This and the proposed licence change for Qt have allowed Redhat to include both DE's in their newest release, and if Redhat includes KDE it it must be ok, eh?
I am not sure whether the article gets all the facts straight though. Wasn't the QT Free foundation announced much earlier than November last year? Also, what has the fact of the smoothness of the OpenLinux 2.2 install much to do with KDE or any desktop.?
And what about the statement that "in Europe, (where) independence from American software companies invokes issues of national security, not just personal choice." I doubt very much that the KDE developers were worrying about national security!
It would be nice if the authors would have also gotten some quotes from Gnome developers, after all it takes two sides to end a (flame) war.
In Redhat terms (which seems the common lingo here) YaST combines the abilities of glint and linuxconf, so it allows you to install/delete packages (rpms) as well as configures your system
Once you try it you find that it does all this very well.
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It's like the best Hannukah present ever. We spun the dreidel, and it landed on AWESOME.
Absolutely, get this book. I just managed to pick it up for $10 at a local Borders, and I've loved this book since I found it in my high school's library.
The illustrations of the balrog and the dragons are just purely amazing. Never knew that pen-and-ink could get that good.
Great stuff. Pick it up if you can.
At the Cleveland Museum of Art, they have this particularly huge German greatsword from the early 16th century. It's about 5'8" in height or so... I'm 6'5" and it comes to just below the shoulder. Oddly enough, it's 8lbs, 12oz. None of the blades in my collection weigh more than 5lbs total, and these are all originals, not the modern reproductions. I'll admit that some of them feel like they're 50lbs after a while, however. Gotta love the way levers work.
Yes, the flame wars have somewhat calmed down
which I attribute to the Gnome 1.0 release.
This and the proposed licence change for Qt
have allowed Redhat to include both DE's in their
newest release, and if Redhat includes KDE
it it must be ok, eh?
I am not sure whether the article gets all the
facts straight though. Wasn't the QT Free
foundation announced much earlier than November
last year? Also, what has the fact of the
smoothness of the OpenLinux 2.2 install much
to do with KDE or any desktop.?
And what about the statement that
"in Europe, (where) independence from American
software companies invokes issues of
national security, not just personal choice."
I doubt very much that the KDE developers were
worrying about national security!
It would be nice if the authors would have also
gotten some quotes from Gnome developers, after
all it takes two sides to end a (flame) war.
In Redhat terms (which seems the common lingo
here) YaST combines the abilities of glint and
linuxconf, so it allows you to install/delete
packages (rpms) as well as configures your system
Once you try it you find that it does all this
very well.