Dominating the world of screen savers?

2004-09-23 Thread Omer Zak
During the last few months, I noticed that the first thing, which people notice about my Linux installations, is the screensaver. Turns out that Linux provides much richer repertoire of screensavers than MS-Windows. So even now, in the coolness factor, Linux vs. MS-Windows score is 1:0. On the

Re: Dominating the world of screen savers?

2004-09-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004, Omer Zak wrote about Dominating the world of screen savers?: During the last few months, I noticed that the first thing, which people notice about my Linux installations, is the screensaver. For several years I've been wondering why the concept of screen saver even

Re: Dominating the world of screen savers?

2004-09-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004, Omer Zak wrote about Dominating the world of screen savers?: During the last few months, I noticed that the first thing, which people notice about my Linux installations, is the screensaver. For several years I've been wondering why the concept of

Re: Dominating the world of screen savers?

2004-09-23 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Nadav Har'El wrote: So I wonder why do people still use graphical screen savers. Is this the coolness factor? There is a good example in The State of the Onion of Larry Wall http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/18/onion.html Gabor

Re: Dominating the world of screen savers?

2004-09-23 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004, Omer Zak wrote about Dominating the world of screen savers?: During the last few months, I noticed that the first thing, which people notice about my Linux installations, is the screensaver. For several years I've been wondering why the concept of screen

Confused about Debian Testing CD images

2004-09-23 Thread Omer Zak
I would like to prepare an installation CD with up-to-date Debian Testing packages, for installation on PCs. So, I found http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ which referred me to http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/ for official jigdo images for CD Then I see at

Re: Confused about Debian Testing CD images

2004-09-23 Thread Lior Kaplan
Woody was 7 CDs... Sarge is much larger. The first CD should be enough for most things. I would like to prepare an installation CD with up-to-date Debian Testing packages, for installation on PCs. So, I found http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ which referred me to