OT: "Best" Linux Distro?
Roger Merchberger
zmerch at 30below.com
Thu Dec 1 17:48:07 CST 2005
Rumor has it that Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner may have mentioned these words:
>It was thus said that the Great woodelf once stated:
> >
> > Alexey Toptygin wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > There's a lot of window managers out there that don't have the bloat
> > > problems of Gnome and KDE. I like WindowMaker, but you can get
> > > AfterStep, fluxbox, icewm, etc.; there's tons available out of the box
> > > on most distros. The only way to win the "Desktop Envoronment" game is
> > > not to play :-)
> > >
> > So what does real unix use for a GUI?
>
> X Windows with only three programs: xload, xclock and xterm. 8-P
You obviously forgot the *real* Spider solitare game... a *must* on any
system I build!
And it's ontopic - the last changes made to the source code for that were
back in '90!
> -spc (That's pretty much all I've ever used X for ... well, except
> for Mosaic/Netscape/Mozilla as well these past few years ... )
I'm starting to learn PCB under linux now for a few things I've been
wanting to design for years now -- and in this month's Linux Journal (just
got it today) it outlines how to make stuff using gEDA, of which PCB is a
part of...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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