Re: Novell Desktop Linux 10: getting closer to a toss up between Linux & Windows?

On a sunny day (Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:06 GMT) it happened Robert Redelmeier
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George Macdonald <fammacd=!SPAM^nothanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:49:38 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx>
Yes make fun of it, I put some desktop shots here,
as ftp seems to have been censored in the US ;-)

Censored? I don't think so - you just don't know how to do
it apparently.

I agree Jan's ftpd looked very misconfigured. I tried it
from three different machines, one in Europe.

If you were expecting people to run an FTP to download *your*
files, which could be infections for all we know, and then
run them through a viewer program you're as daft as a brush.

I disagree. I fully expect something as simple as a viewer
to be free of exploits, if not entirely bug-free. I won't
blame data for malevolence. Users have responsibilities too.

As for the content, I still don't know what you're trying to
present here: so you have a few graphical interface progs
which run under X. So bloody what? You think we've never
seen an X application before?

Agreed. I wasn't sure what the point was, other than it seemed
Jan had a borderless shell running, and X apps pasted overtop
(perhaps without stealing focus?).

Yes focus follows mouse (always, no click).
The point is the 6 virtual screens (pager on top right), one with
icons for when you need to click (netscape is easier to click for some
reason, actually it is firefox), one with whatever text files (C sources
manuals, config files, log files) that you are working on AT THAT
MOMENT (and I have many times ALL of these files open), not cluttered
in idiotic Billy little windows overlapping, but each in a nice rxvt, in ONE
virtual screen.
So much easier, and some GUI apps in their own virtual screen.
Even worked with MS Visual studio to create a C++ program?
Man what a nuissance

Just run gcc in one rxvt and have the sources in the other etc, and
you only need half the size monitor.

MS windows with ever smaller windows in windows is just so stupid...
you will need glasses and a mouse movent stabilizer ...

I agree completely, MS sort of assumes users are idiots.
That is why we here say 'written by idiots for idiots' about MS soft.
Here kids from 8 years up who can just spell LOVE xterms.
They WANT power of the PC.
MS degrades people to dumb ones who cannot write or speak, and only
point at things.. now think of the age group....

To learn to drive a car you need a license, maybe it would be not such
a bad idea to give some basic training in those Unix commands at the
schools, not just in Apple GUIs.
Because the younger they learn the better the chance they will be able
to play the game later on.

When old and blind and mute they can always refer back to the eye or nose driven
point and click to say:" 'I am happy' 'I am not'.

Efficient? I would like to see that astronomical number representing the
number of hours people spend flipping in front of the MS box 're-installing' that OS.
To do WHAT? torture them again !!!!
hehe



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