On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 12:00, Len Philpot wrote: > No doubt - I probably should have waited a couple of minutes before > posting and if I was abrasive, I apologise. I was irritated at the > moment, not only at the look, but also at X lockups under RH9 (KDE, so > far, when logging out). Plus, spending quite a bit of time totally > redoing the (illogical, to me) app menu structure using kmenuedit only > to have it get corrupted didn't help; I even never figured out a way to > edit Gnome's menu. This is the third or fourth time in the last week or > so I've been around the horn on all this and the repetition is getting > under my skin - No excuse for venting, but maybe you understand my > mindset... > > Thanks.
I rather remember this particular ramble emanating from my own fingers about six or eight months ago - directly after purchasing and installing RH 8.0; I found that everything beyond RH 7.3 was not viable for a client's desktop as there was way too much configuration, tweaking, reinstalling of this'n'that - just wasn't worth the time or the effort; and for my own desktop, I certainly wasn't going to take valuable time out to muck around. I moved to Mandrake for a desktop distro - and haven't budged since - heaps more options for customisation and configurations, and although Mandrake has also tried to marry Gnome and KDE, at least it's easier to break out of it and just "do it your way". I still install RH on my clients' servers - I believe and have always believed that RH was great for servers and won't budge on that note, but a "desktop" is a different critter altogether, and I've had much more satisfaction from my customers with the MDK for the desktop - speed is a definite issue at all times when you're talking about a desktop. The glitz and glamour sucks as well => eye candy. XFCE3 and XFCE4, WindowMaker, ROX, even Enlightenment run rings around KDE and Gnome2, and I certainly don't like having a company shove a windowmanager/desktop down my throat as much as it's done in RH nowadays. (And in actuality, I still like using Olvwm - just because...) -- Sun Jun 22 14:10:00 EST 2003 14:10:00 up 23:20, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.10 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > The day people think linux would be better served by somebody else (FSF > being the natural alternative), I'll "abdicate". I don't think that > it's something people have to worry about right now - I don't see it > happening in the near future. I enjoy doing linux, even though it does > mean some work, and I haven't gotten any complaints (some almost timid > reminders about a patch I have forgotten or ignored, but nothing > negative so far). > > Don't take the above to mean that I'll stop the day somebody complains: > I'm thick-skinned (Lasu, who is reading this over my shoulder commented > that "thick-HEADED is closer to the truth") enough to take some abuse. > If I weren't, I'd have stopped developing linux the day ast ridiculed me > on c.o.minix. What I mean is just that while linux has been my baby so > far, I don't want to stand in the way if people want to make something > better of it (*). > > Linus > > (*) Hey, maybe I could apply for a saint-hood from the Pope. Does > somebody know what his email-address is? I'm so nice it makes you puke. (Taken from Linus's reply to someone worried about the future of Linux) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
