Desktop suitability (was Re: this post is not off-topic)

2002-06-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:15:45AM -0300, synthespian wrote: You can't use Potato for a desktop (to outdated) and you remain in this security limbo...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

Re: Desktop suitability (was Re: this post is not off-topic)

2002-06-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:23:02AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:15:45AM -0300, synthespian wrote: | You can't use Potato for a desktop (to outdated) and you remain in this | security limbo...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

Re: Desktop suitability (was Re: this post is not off-topic)

2002-06-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:39:06PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Your audience is not me. For *me*, potato is too old for desktop use. ... Your audience isn't a computer geek like me (who is also a developer) Thanks for the reply! You've got some great reasons for wanting something

Re: Desktop suitability (was Re: this post is not off-topic)

2002-06-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I'm not really concerned with how much geeks and developers like potato for the simple reason that they (we) are capable of dealing with the uncertainties of woody/sid and might even be willing to do the occasional `./configure ; make ; make install` to get things that our distro(s) of choice