[cumbria_lug] Lurking too long.

[Alex Wray]

Hmm...just my first thought at seeing that was actually to be
surprised that you didn't consider the gui's to be good enough.
Personally, I set up gentoo on my laptop a couple of months ago. Not
the easiest (or quickest!) install, I have to say, but pleasing
nevertheless, as I have learnt a significant amount about my computer
that I didn't know before ;)

However, it's running KDE 3.4, and I have to say I'm really quite
impressed, especially with conqueror. The other day I just noticed had
a web page in one window, a zip-file (browsed as theough it were a
folder) in another, sftp in a third, and samba in a fourth...all
working seamlessly together - ever seen that in windows? There are
shortfalls - rar isn't supported as well as zip and others, the KHTML
team reportedly only has 2 dev's, hence it's lack of standards
support, but I have to say, it really is very impressive, supporting
auto-mounting and so forth.

Also, I'm sorry to all that I haven't been participating too much
recently - university applications/A-levels have been taking over my
time. Other than that, I've been working on a (to be) open source
gameboy emulator in my odd free moments, but I've rarely been up here
since I go to school in the south.

Hope everyone is well!

Wrayal

On 2/17/06, Ian Linwood <ian_linwood_clug at dinwoodie.freeuk.com> wrote:
> Ok.
>
> This group is dieing :-(
>
> I accept, I'm a  contributory factor of that, due to my non participation.
>
> Lets shake the cage and wake the monkey's   ;-)
>
> I really like Linux.
>
> It is NOT progressing.
>
> For it to take off, we need a Linux (mmm, I mean integrated) GUI....
>
> Lets face it folks, if you are not IT competent - it's a NON STARTER.
>
> OK, we've stumbled along with xwindow, Gnome, KDE, Xorg. But are they
> getting anywhere?
>
> Sun made a great effort with CDE (don't shout!). Then made the misguided
> move to Gnome. Their efforts were excellent, but unfortunately didn't
> make a splash. Looking Glass was FANTASTIC, but not followed through. :-(
>
> I'm going to kill my XP box. But it's not Linux that I'm going for -
> Solaris 10 will be my friend.
>
> Solid, Stable, Reliable. free (note lower case)
>
> The only thing that, IMO, could compete, are the BSD's. My fav would be
> OpenBSD, but unfortunately, the guy who runs that show is a prick.
>
> I'm sick of being ripped off. I don't want to wait 6Months for a patch
> to a critical vuln on a browser!
>
> I don't want MS to know everything I do. Like-wise Google, Intel, Disney
> or Apple.
>
> Every corp. wants to data mine your mind. This is NOT ON.
>
> American "culture" seems to be pervasive. The problem is, Americans
> don't have a Culture. They have commercialism, capatilism, and
> Guantanamo Bay...oh, and god...BOLLOCKS!
>
> Apologies for the digression.
>
> We are no longer a free society, this is what the establishment wants.
>
>
>
>
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