Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-11 Thread Joe Linux
Thanks for the complement, I gave a presentation on it at the CLUE monthly meeting (Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiasts) which seemed to be very well received. My presentation consisted of a big screen slide show which included screen shots and amusing slides prepared with Gimp and shown

Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-09 Thread al plant
Dan George wrote: Does that come distributed on Oahu? Maybe a free trial version? - Original Message - From: al plant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [luau] kpackage W. Wayne Liauh wrote: KDE is great

Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-08 Thread Joe Linux
Most people just want a usable system that is intuitive; and therefore requires little learning. lucidity wrote: I believe anybody trying to learn *nix or *nux, should know how to do it manually: Anonymous quote: Do you want to point and click, or do you want to *know how*?

[luau] kpackage

2002-08-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
KDE is great. However, if you are like me, who use Linux DESKTOP for a living, you will try to eliminate every possible source of problem, then you definitely want to use a simpler window manager. The best window manager for Linux is a repackaged version of IceWM, put together by our own

Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-08 Thread Jimen Ching
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, lucidity wrote: Sorry to rant, but I believe anybody trying to learn *nix or *nux, should know how to do it manually: ie: you need to re-enable kudzu to detect a new piece of hardware you just installed, but for some reason, your X interface is broken... I think Dave's point

Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-08 Thread al plant
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: KDE is great. However, if you are like me, who use Linux DESKTOP for a living, you will try to eliminate every possible source of problem, then you definitely want to use a simpler window manager. The best window manager for Linux is a repackaged version of IceWM,

Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-08 Thread Dan George
Does that come distributed on Oahu? Maybe a free trial version? - Original Message - From: al plant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [luau] kpackage W. Wayne Liauh wrote: KDE is great. However, if you are like me, who use

Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-08 Thread MonMotha
We run XFCE on all our Linux and Unix Boxes here. It's lean and mean for a GUI. I've been a fan of FVWM for a while. For all that it does, it is EXTREMELY small (under 5MB). Unfortunately, out of the box it's not very pretty or functional, but it is very configurable. If size is an

[luau] kpackage

2002-08-07 Thread T. David Burns
At 03:50 PM 7/28/2002 -1000, Eric Hattemer wrote: kpackage (which I really liked, but Warren had some kind of problem with), mysteriously disappeared in the newest versions of redhat. I just installed 7.3 and I got it. I don't know where to find it on a menu, but you don't need to. If you use

Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-07 Thread Eric Hattemer
Subject: [luau] kpackage At 03:50 PM 7/28/2002 -1000, Eric Hattemer wrote: kpackage (which I really liked, but Warren had some kind of problem with), mysteriously disappeared in the newest versions of redhat. I just installed 7.3 and I got it. I don't know where to find it on a menu, but you

Re: [luau] kpackage

2002-08-07 Thread lucidity
Deluded Dave: I agree with you that gui's implementation in *nix/linux is a little slow, However, GUI does not automatically mean better, Case in point: earlier this week, my 3dfx card crapped out on me. The only way I could get back into my system was to run the linux rescue mode from