Hi. First of all, it is quite interesting that I didn't get a single reply on my question about the esound dependency problems. Am I he only one who would like to use Gnome and Alsa at the same time under Potato? :) Well, anyway.
The other thing... I downloaded the "Fractint for motif" (Xmfract) software in source code. It is not a Linux program, but one written for generic Unix systems with Motif. I compiled it with the Lesstif libraries, everything went fine until I started the installed binary from X. It was S.L.O.W. in the "Winblows 98 on a 386 with 4 Megs RAM" kind of meaning of the word (not the fractal generation, but when I open a new options window, or do something window-manager related), and complained constantly about not being able to allocate colors. I thought this more than weird, as I was using 32 bit colors... ;) And lo, it really couldnt allocate color maps, all the fractals came out as variations for "deep blue lines on a big black background". It does work normally under mwm with 8 bit colors, but it is still slow, and the positioning inside windows seems a bit "warped", like texts covering each other and so on. Is this because Lesstif is still not 100% compatible with the real thing, or could the problem lie somewhere else (like a version bug or something)? And about Debian... Well, I don't say it is the best Linux out there, but I like it the most. ;) Mainly because it is simple, and can easily be kept in hand. I get the cold shivers from those "user-friendly" Linuxes like Caldera or SUSE... They are very user-friendly until you actually try to use them. :) By installing and configuring Debian stone-by-stone, you get to know your system inside-out. I was a complete M$-addict until a year ago, and all my experiments with various Linuxes (RedHat, SUSE) were total failures. But by installing a working debian system, I sort of learned the necessary things in-flight. Daniel Szabo
