Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-18 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books. > It took me 2 hours, but now X Windows is running properly. But my printer is > not supported, and I have not yet

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Wolf
the X numbers by hand....unless I can find someone else with a Dell who's willing to tell me what they used. (See rant above.) -W HTH, HAND. On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:39:14PM -0600, Christopher Wolf wrote: > Heck, hardware's not a problem as long as 1) you write all your own

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 11:18 PM 2/19/2001 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote: > At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: >>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: >> > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of b

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 05:35 PM 2/19/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote: Everyone who writes free software does so for their own reasons; while I commend user friendliness and try to make my own software friendly and try to help others ( if they want it ) through patches and so forth, I would rather have free software ov

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 08:21 AM 2/20/2001 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Christopher Wolf wrote: > Free > software is usually not as easy to use because no one has the time to work > out all the bugs like a dedicated company might (don't even bring up MS; > they don't write software, the

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 09:55 PM 2/20/2001 +, Alexander Clouter wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote: > > You're talking about single releases, which Debian does very well. But I'm > talking generally about the lifetime of a free product, not necessarily > > [snipped li

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-18 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: >On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: > > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books. > > It took me 2 hours, but now X Windows is running properly. But my > printer is > > not supported, and I have

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Wolf
;ll need to calculate all the X numbers by handunless I can find someone else with a Dell who's willing to tell me what they used. (See rant above.) -W >HTH, HAND. > >On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:39:14PM -0600, Christopher Wolf wrote: > > Heck, hardware's not a pro

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 11:18 PM 2/19/2001 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: >On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote: > > At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: > >>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: > >> > This afternoon I bought a box with S

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 05:35 PM 2/19/2001 -0800, Rob Helmer wrote: >Everyone who writes free software does so for their own reasons; while >I commend user friendliness and try to make my own software friendly >and try to help others ( if they want it ) through patches and so forth, >I would rather have free software

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 08:21 AM 2/20/2001 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: >Christopher Wolf wrote: > > > Free > > software is usually not as easy to use because no one has the time to work > > out all the bugs like a dedicated company might (don't even bring up MS; > > they don

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 09:55 PM 2/20/2001 +, Alexander Clouter wrote: >On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote: > > > > You're talking about single releases, which Debian does very well. But I'm > > talking generally about the lifetime of a free product, not necessarily >