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[ILUG] don't ya just hate it when...

[ILUG] don't ya just hate it when...

Keith Clancy Keith.Clancy at Berlitz.ie
Thu May 17 16:01:33 IST 2001


what you need is Lindows :)
half and half .. 

Enough of this i don't think people will ever be happy .. there will always
be people like me and you bitching about this :)

Think i'll turn off my computer and go outside for a while.... aggh the
light .. it burns !!

Keith.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Guest [mailto:ken at AnteFacto.com]
Sent: 17 May 2001 15:57
To: Keith Clancy
Cc: 'Glen Gray'; 'ilug at linux.ie'
Subject: Re: [ILUG] don't ya just hate it when...


Keith Clancy wrote:

> It is bloody bloatware, Look at what you get with linux, Freebsd,
> whatever... 
> Then compare it to what you get with win2k 
> 
> Look at the packages on the redhat cd's sometime.. 
> Even though i'm not a big fan of linux.. when you install it, at least you
> know whats going on there... where as with windows it's a sort of "Ohhh
look
> at the pretty progress bar"


yeah but that's the thing. it's too bloody informative. I don't need to 
see 3 or 4 screens worth of waffle being printed on the screen when I 
boot my linux box each day.
I mean come on.


ken



-- 
   Beware the fury of a patient man
                      - John Dryden




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