Re: [SLE] SuSE 8.2 -- What is the best file system?
Hi Jerry,
Jim Gettys from Digital/Compaq/HP was giving talks a few years ago talking about the birth, death and rebirth of the X Window System. Jim also sits on the board for both KDE and GNOME.
I thought that the X window system had started as a research project at MIT. So I wonder when and how did it die???
Competition is good for open software as it is for commercial >>software. Both KDE and GNOME are better today partially because they have to compete against themselves as well as Windoz. And, one thing we in >>the Linux community like is to have alternatives. If I get sick of my >>KDE desktop, I can always configure GNOME or go to one of the other >>window managers available.
One should never get sick of KDE. It is very flexible and is very user friendly. I find that KDE and Gnome are almost identical in look/feel to me anyway. Reinventing the wheel is never good, especially in software. The only difference between the 2 that I see is that I can make Gnome 1.4 crash while I still can't get KDE 3.0 to. But I did crash Konquerer... What a piece of crap browser...No disrepect to the developers but gosh... I think the world would be better off with just Mozilla (Firebird). ~~Nick _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
Nicholas Parsons wrote:
I thought that the X window system had started as a research project at MIT. So I wonder when and how did it die???
The way I learned it, the MIT project was called "W", that being the command to start the "windowing system". Based on the research, they figured out where the technical issues were and redesigned it from bottom up. Of course, the new one was 'one better than W', hence 'X'. (It may be an urban myth, but I'll keep it until a better one comes around.) In the X11R3/4 days, the whole system was pretty heavy in terms of necessary resources. I remember doing evals during that time & all the 'experts' said X was going away. Of course, the emphasis was on thin clients, and no one wanted to part with their local copy of [shudder] Excel.
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One should never get sick of KDE. It is very flexible and is very user friendly. I find that KDE and Gnome are almost identical in look/feel to me anyway. Reinventing the wheel is never good, especially in software. The only difference between the 2 that I see is that I can make Gnome 1.4 crash while I still can't get KDE 3.0 to. But I did crash Konquerer... What a piece of crap browser...No disrepect to the developers but gosh... I think the world would be better off with just Mozilla (Firebird).
~~Nick
Hey Nick, I am sure Microsoft also believes every other browser should die off and IE be the only one :). Seriously, has to have something good about it if Apple wanted to rip it off... Yes I do use Konq, yes its not perfect, no its not crappy...Crappy was Netscape 4.7x, now that was horrid! And it was all we had in terms of GUI capable browsers for too long... Matt
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