John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Joakimsen
wrote: You can't expect the latest software to keep on running on older machines forever. Maybe keeping 3.5 on those machines is the best idea? I don't think that Windows Vista or Mac OS X will run "great" on either of those machines... --
Vista is the model we are following now?
Seems so, and I can't get anything to work in vista either. I turn all the flashy aero garbage off and disable about 90% of the crazy/annoying security features. When I'm down to just the plain desktop, I can get the word processing and file reviewing done that the job requires. But I do look at vist and kind of scratch my head when I think of all the valuable and costly development resources and the years of time MS has thrown at that desktop and really wonder -- for what?, what? I also think about the percentage of time I spent with Beta 5 and KDE4 trying to install and run every application I could think of normally running to really try and help hammer out the last round of bugs before 11.1 arrives on out desktops. I was ready to embrace KDE4 and learn it so there would be a seamless transition when I installed 11.1. After all the effort, the 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning night, after no less that 12 bug reports, and all the time working, struggling, trying to figure out how to do the simple core-tasks of any desktop, like simply placing the focus on a file in kongueror, I found myself presented with the same question all over again. For What? Why? Why does it now take both hands and two inputs to simply put the focus on a file, when years of development went into designing an elegant way to do it with a single click. Why? ....But iceWM, now! There's an option for just getting work done when KDE3.5 is wastefully thrown-under-the-bus... It is just staggering to think about the years of slow and steady progression, all the dedication, all the focus on ease and efficiency-of-use, and all the focus on design to give the users a elegant way to control virtually every aspect of the desktop, to think that, in the end, what had taken a decade to create, is simply being tossed out like an old worn-out pair of shoes. In a sense, it is the same manner of thinking that has left Wall-Street, the Mortgage Banks and the consumer credit lenders, the auto-makers and our entire economy in the shape that it is. Forget about focusing on the core-business values that built the companies into the entities that they were, let's go with the newest, shiniest derivatives, and bundled mortgage backed securities "that is the new direction that business is going!" And it went alright.... \... \.... \ \ \../\ \ \ \.. \ \/\ \ \. | \ | -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 www.rankinlawfirm.com | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org