Rolf G Nielsen wrote:
Reid Linnemann wrote:
My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She
saw my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know
why i was using such an "old" computer. She had the visual aspect of
the user interface ingrained as a measure o
Hi Gerard,
Gerard wrote:
I was not aware of any place where they gave computers away.
In the UK we call them "skips". Not sure what the rest of the world
calls them. [Large metal junk containers placed at the back of large
buildings near the other bins. They're usually hired rather than owne
idea how, and I was expecting a nice "user-friendly" GUI, like Windoze, but
without the constant crashes.
that's what most people expect. and thats why i say:
Windows it the most windows compatible system available. don't change to
other.
In 1999 I purchased "The complete FreeBSD, 3rd edit
On August 10, 2007 at 03:47AM Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> well here in poland people do see a difference, because computer has to be
> bought, while windoze can be pirated.
I was not aware of any place where they gave computers away.
> in my 320 user network less than ten bought windoze, over 30
On Gdańsk technical university there was a man about 50 years teaching
people unix (mostly).
what he talked very often:
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DO NOT use windows EVER. Not because it's slow, not because it crashes,
and not because it can't do much. Not because of security too.
But because it's teaching BAD HAB
I am not following this. If (X.org + some WM) is not a GUI,
how would you define
He probably equates a desktop environment (such as KDE/Gnome/etc.) to a GUI.
most people exactly equates that and i stated i that such defined GUI is
completely useless and actually takes over time and resources
Am Freitag 10 August 2007 10:57:38 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text
> > and graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config,
> > there are plenty of nice other wm's good for t
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text
> and graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config,
> there are plenty of nice other wm's good for that.
I am not following this. If (X.org + some WM) is not a GUI,
ho
User-friendliness is obviously subjective. Some people consider a
my definition is that user friendly system does what i want, does it right
and quickly. simply - it's my slave. not my master.
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sincerely assume that.
well here in poland people do see a difference, because computer has to be
bought, while windoze can be pirated.
in my 320 user network less than ten bought windoze, over 300 uses pirated
one, 10 uses my X-terminals.
and it's good for microsoft. if police in poland
Sorry, I agree with you, s/GUI/graphic based/ in my post. I've just
Yes - graphics based. I use graphics based programs like gimp, links
-g, opera, xv & xzgv, gv and xdvi.
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FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know why i was using
such an "old" computer. She had the visual aspect of the user interface
ingrained as a measure of the capabilities of the machine. Granted, it could
be only because she's ten, but I think we'd find a lot of people thin
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:20:13PM +0200, Rolf G Nielsen wrote:
> >My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She saw
> >my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know why i
> >was using such an "old" computer. She had the visual aspect of the user
> >interfac
Reid Linnemann wrote:
My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She saw
my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know why i
was using such an "old" computer. She had the visual aspect of the user
interface ingrained as a measure of the capabilities of t
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:15:08 -0500
Reid Linnemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She
> saw my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know
> why i was using such an "old" computer. [...] Granted, it could be
> only beca
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:04:50 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > desktop system should be, so FreeBSD with GUI apps _is_
> > -- or can be if you want -- a "perfect desktop system".
>
> i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text
> and graphic (X) base
Written by Wojciech Puchar on 08/09/07 12:04>>
desktop system should be, so FreeBSD with GUI apps _is_
-- or can be if you want -- a "perfect desktop system".
i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text and
graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config, t
desktop system should be, so FreeBSD with GUI apps _is_
-- or can be if you want -- a "perfect desktop system".
i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text and
graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config, there are
plenty of nice other wm's good for tha
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