The thing I hate most about Linux is the way files are scattered around, all the executables are in /.../bin, the man pages are in /usr/share/man, the docs are in /usr/share/doc, etc. etc. etc. All very ugly. I don't care what everyone else here says, I'll be using it on my computer :)

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The thing I hate most about Linux is the way files are scattered around, all the executables are in /.../bin, the man pages are in /usr/share/man, the docs are in /usr/share/doc, etc. etc. etc. All very ugly. I don't care what everyone else here says, I'll be using it on my computer :)

I prefer Gnome. It's much simpler, easier to use. I prefer the it-just-works mentality to you-can-configure-the-crap-out-of-it-so-what-do-imperfections-matter? one of KDE. However, I prefer ROX-Filer, so I've turned Nautilus off. I also find Gnome apps look better than KDE ones; there's something ...

Sorry, this may be obvious.

MOvable type charges I think $150 for a commercial use license. Still not bad, but why bother if free alternatives are available?

MT attracts people with the free for personal use licence. Said people fall in love with it and become used to it. Said people move to a ...

Good post. More bang for your buck than my comparison with Debian :)

-- A FreeBSD -> Gentoo convert.

Ebuild added to previous post. I was going to create a seperate thread, then I noticed Atlantis' licensing. Not worth drawing additional attention to it IMO.

For those wondering about Atlantis' exact licencing, see here:
Copyright:
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atlantis with all its released files are fully ...

I was about to come here and post a thread called 'Gentooer accidentally stuck in a Debian world'. Came here and saw this thread, so I'll post this poor excuse for a review here (this is first-draft quality. It has not been proofread and reads more-or-less like my thoughts rather than like something ...

heh try to configure kernel on freebsd and you'll se e how nice it is. maybe there are some utils but in general with linux kernel you get menuconfig which i find very nice but with freebsd you get something like XF86config which is linear answering of questions or even editing scripts by hand. it ...

I'm also looking for a nice gtk2 player, and I don't like RhythmBox or MusicBox, and certainly not gstreamer, their all "huge"..

I recommend either looking at quark (which, as I understand it, simply sits in your system tray) or using something like RhythmBox or MusicBox, modifying it if ...

Toth wrote:I am using Rhythmbox 0.5.0 and it is quite fast and stable.

I've since discovered MusicBox, a ROX app (and so it's GTK2, and simple). It occasionally crashes, but being GTK2 more than makes up for this. You can see a screenshot at its website or on my website.

I've been having problems with other GTK apps so I'm emerge --deep -u world on stable rather than ~ (after doing that, should I emerge -e world to get everything compiled against those libs?). Hopefully that will help.

I don't think that will help. And emerge -e world simply re-emerges all ...

It still crashes on startup for me (before it's shown its gui, even). Try running it as root, see if it crashes then. I had that problem, but I don't remember the remedy. I'm successfully using net-rhythmbox btw.

Nup, that didn't help, but I've been having problems with other GTK apps so I'm ...

Toth wrote:I am using Rhythmbox 0.5.0 and it is quite fast and stable.

It still crashes on startup for me (before it's shown its gui, even).

Xpdf :arrow: GPdf
Xmms :arrow: Rhythmbox

Gpdf isn't there yet (doesn't seem to support anti-aliasing fonts, which makes many look incredibly ugly), and it has jumpscroll too with the scrollwheel, so I'll still be using Xpdf for a while. (I'm not complaining about Xpdf---it supports everything I ...

: Is GCONF a database or a directory structure with real files in it?

The latter..

I thought Gconf was more like an API: Anyone can write a new backend and a new frontend for it, so that you could, for example, make it an SQL database if you wanted.

While I don't use Gnome per se, I hate apps ...

At present, I think Konqueror has the best rendering engine, then perhaps Opera or Mozilla, not sure about Galeon haven't used it much.

Only if you're using the second definition:

Best, adj superlative of good. See good.

Good, adj (comp. better, superl. best). 1. of a favorable character or ...

http://zsau.firespeaker.org/screenshots/screenshot-2003.08.05.png

Widget Style: XFCE-curve from XFCE4, obviously. The most recent pre-release, I think.

Wallpaper: I got it from deviantART, but beyond that I have no idea.

Icons: A mix of various themes. I know they don't mix well with each ...

Camoes wrote:the best way to scare someone who is new to linux, is to tell him to use vim ;)

And the best way to scare someone who's old to linux is to tell them to use emacs :)

Does anyone know of a good beginner's guide to LaTeX?
It seems really great for doing things for school, and I like the geekness of it... :D

Take a look at the Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e . Can be found in CTAN. Or by googling. I know many people (myself included) who have learnt LaTeX ...

Hmm...

Interesting is, that most people say "Just one and its Gentoo". Now the question is "How many OS'es".

So with most people saying "Just one and its Gentoo" that would mean "I have one Operating System on my PC and Gentoo" - So gentoo is no OS for you !? ;)

Umm.. pardon? You seem to be ...

I have 512 Mio RAM and a 768 Mio swap partition.

Yes, MS Office 2006 will require a minimum of 3GB RAM and a Pentium5, 64-bit running at 6GHz, and that's only enough for you to open a new document.

And so OpenOffice.org 2 will require a minimum 4 Gio RAM and a 64-bit CPU at at least 10 GHz to be ...

I have Gentoo and Windows. But to boot Windows, which I only do incredibly rarely (I have it installed in case I ever need to run a bit of Windows-only software because I've never been able to get Wine working acceptible, and because I'd need to buy a licence for VMWare, and because I have an OEM ...

With a webbrowser.

Erm... specifically? Oh... Galeon 1.3.7. Which is perfectly stable and should be unmasked, dammit.

At Uni I use Win2k+IE, but I never come here from there.

No. I will not pay money for Linux. If the choice was pay money for Linux or don't use Linux, I'd use Windows XP Home, as I have a legal licence for it, or (for preference) FreeBSD if it has support for my hardware.

I find KDE apps to be ugly and much too complicated---I gave Konqueror a shot a few days ago and wow . GTK2, OTOH, is much better looking, and has nicer apps written for it. As far as pure Qt-apps go, the only one I know I've used is Opera, and it has a sucky interface too.

So my perspective is ...