It seems a habit with Slackware to release a crappy *.0 release followed by a
decent *.1 release nowadays.

But yeah, I'm loving 9.1.

Menno Duursma <menno@desktop.lan> wrote:
>
> Article: Three Months with Slackware Linux 9.1
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5307
>
>
> "Conclusion
>
> By now you probably have noticed that my two Slackware articles I have
> ever written (this one and my Sept. review) are pretty "short" for my
> standards. This is because there is nothing either glorious or problematic
> to report. It just works." [...]
>
>
>
> Fond it linked to from here:
> http://www.rootprompt.org/
>

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following text on 2003-12-06:

> It seems a habit with Slackware to release a crappy *.0 release followed by a
> decent *.1 release nowadays.
>
Do you have any facts to back up that claim? Like what was wrong with
9.0 that was fixed in 9.1, and how about 8.0-8.1 or 7.0-7.1?

> But yeah, I'm loving 9.1.
>
<AOL> Me too ! </AOL>

p.s. It'll also be appreciated, and not just by me, if you'd quit
top-posting.

- --
Bartosz Oudekerk

Play Rogue, visit exotic locations, meet strange creatures
and kill them.
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Joost Kremers wrote :
>
> "integrated server/system tools"? "differentiation on the desktop side"?
> FAM" wtf is that all about?

Hasn't got a clue about what "differentiation on the desktop side" is,
but given the screenshots from her desktop its obviously something she
needs very badly.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

(...)
> reviewer's fondness for Slack, he's still a GUI oriented user and fails

%s/he/she/g

Nice trolling.

Eugenia


"Thomas Overgaard" <thover@post2.tele.dk> wrote in message
news:amd9a1-1q2.ln1@news.inet.tele.dk...
>
> Joost Kremers wrote :
> >
> > "integrated server/system tools"? "differentiation on the desktop side"?
> > FAM" wtf is that all about?
>
> Hasn't got a clue about what "differentiation on the desktop side" is,
> but given the screenshots from her desktop its obviously something she
> needs very badly.
> --
> Thomas O.
>
> This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

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> Bolwerk <no@way.org> is thought to have typed the
> following text on 2003-12-06:

> > It seems a habit with Slackware to release a crappy *.0 release
> > followed by a decent *.1 release nowadays.

> Do you have any facts to back up that claim? Like what was wrong
> with 9.0 that was fixed in 9.1, and how about 8.0-8.1 or 7.0-7.1?

Don't you dare say anything bad about slackware! Don't you dare
imply that anything about slackware could be better!

cordially, as always,

rm

Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote :
> "Thomas Overgaard" <thover@post2.tele.dk> wrote in message
>>
>> Hasn't got a clue about what "differentiation on the desktop side" is,
>> but given the screenshots from her desktop its obviously something she
>> needs very badly.
>
> Nice trolling.
>
Sorry but i wasn't trolling. If my desktop did look like your screenshots
it would probably have caused me a nervous breakdown. And no, I really
don't know what "differentiation on the desktop side" means.

One of the things i appreciate the most about XFree86 is the ability to
have several desktops and running one or a few applications in each. I
really feels this gives me a very "clean" and less confusing desktop.

But I hope your screenshots was an attempt to show as many Linux
programs as possible.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> "Thomas Overgaard" <thover@post2.tele.dk> wrote in message
> news:amd9a1-1q2.ln1@news.inet.tele.dk...
>>
>> Joost Kremers wrote :
>> >
>> > "integrated server/system tools"? "differentiation on the desktop side"?
>> > FAM" wtf is that all about?
>>
>> Hasn't got a clue about what "differentiation on the desktop side" is,
>> but given the screenshots from her desktop its obviously something she
>> needs very badly.
>
> Nice trolling.

take it easy, eugenia. perhaps i should have said right away that i do
appreciate your positive review. it's just the big words in the final
paragraph that make me a bit skeptical. they sound like something a manager
might say...

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Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Slackware doesn't have any quirks. Other distros have quirks. Slackware's
just pure Linux.

Thomas Overgaard <thover@post2.tele.dk> wrote:

> One of the things i appreciate the most about XFree86 is the
> ability to have several desktops and running one or a few
> applications in each. I really feels this gives me a very "clean"
> and less confusing desktop.

Can you give us an example of where you would use several desktops?
Could you please tell us what applications you feel you need to
spread amongst several desktops?

You don't need both desktops and windowmanagers.

cordially, as always,

rm

> take it easy, eugenia. perhaps i should have said right away that i do
> appreciate your positive review. it's just the big words in the final
> paragraph that make me a bit skeptical. they sound like something a
manager
> might say...

The last paragraph is talking about a possible general future direction.
About innovation, engineering and not just a repackaging distro. The
"differentiation" part means the ability to offer something not only better,
but also different taste-wise than other distros. Because that's how you can
sell more: by being compatible and also have that "little tick" that makes
you different than the next distro.

Eugenia