On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:15:45AM -0300, synthespian wrote: > You can't use Potato for a desktop (to outdated) and you remain in this > security limbo...
<rant> Why does everyone keep repeating this "potato is too old to be a desktop" line? I heartily disagree and I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 office personnel (accountants, purchasing, etc. - not technogeeks) to back me up. They run potato or at-least-as-old versions of Red Hat, Mandrake, or Suse[1] with StarOffice sitting on top of them and not a one has complained about missing functionality in the year I've been supporting them. And for those who think that KDE or GNOME is the be-all of desktop usability, I've got news for you: I've started moving them over to WindowMaker and they like it better. When I first show them a wmaker session, there's a little disorentation, but I make it clear that they still have KDE/GNOME[1] available if they'd rather use that for now. Within a week, most are primarily using WindowMaker. </rant> [1] The lack of standardization isn't my doing. Previous admins seem to have just run whatever shipped with each machine on it. I've made good progress towards cleaning things up, but don't expect to be done with that project any time soon. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]