On 13-Jan-08, at 8:56 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> redhat 5 had a package manager - yes, graphical. It had linuxconf - >> from setting up aliases to ethernet cards, users blah blah. Great > > Too bad it does not install on modern day hardware :D Also, you > seem to > think Linuxconf from those days was the best way to do things ? I > haveto > disagree. Linuxconf was a piece of crap software, badly written and > hard > to manage or even hack your own stuff into. So much so that its been > more than once abandoned by its authors.
linuxconf was fine until RH 7 - when it got broke > >> gui. Actually it was 5.2 that had all the goodies. It ran on 32 MB >> RAM. And it ran wordperfect 5.1 perfectly under dosemu. It had a real > > I have, just like pretty much most of the world, no use for > Wordperfect. deah boy, my secretary has been using wp 5.1 from 1989 and refuses to shift from it. She started out on a dos box, then doze 3.1, then redhat 5.2 with dosemu - unfortunately when I tried wp in dosemu in later versions of redhat it didnt work fully, so now she is on doze 98 in dos mode. I am trying to get all the keybindings to work under wine in mandriva, in which case I will shift her back to the good and true distro > >> good filemanager -yes, better than windows explorer. I have the cds, >> so if you want to come and verify it - be my guest. > > Compared to what window manager ? Can it compete in a user > experience to > todays Windows ? Or are you still living in a time warp and only > want to > compare notes with what 'has been' ? frankly speaking, I dont see any difference between the kde desktop I have today with what I had in rh 5.2. Of course I am an old guy and my needs are simple, so maybe it doesnt count. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
