From: Keith Clancy (Keith.Clancy at domain Berlitz.ie)
Date: Thu 17 May 2001 - 16:01:33 IST
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 domain AnteFacto.com]
Sent: 17 May 2001 15:57
To: Keith Clancy
Cc: 'Glen Gray'; 'ilug at domain 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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