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minimal and uncluttered (was about redhat thing)
check out blackbox.. it's minimal, uncluttered, and fast
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, David Guy Brizan wrote:
> Okay, I feel the need to defend that. I can't argue with you too much,
> because it _was_ a tour and not the expo.
>
> But I think RH is guilty of not understanding its audience. I think a
> good opening question would have been, "How many people here are NOT
> hardcore nerds?" My money would have been on less than a handful. And in
> that case, we're less interested in fluff like desktop colours, even
> though they're nice to have. (Personally, though, I'm an fvwm fan. I
> like my desktop minimal and uncluttered.)
>
> Clay writes:
> > Why don't you express your opinions with RedHat themselves [....]
>
> That's the solution, of course. Thanks. Here I go!
>
> --
>
> Nothing convinces me that computing is an art so much as a bad install.
>
> David Guy Brizan brizan@freenet.msp.mn.us 612-814-8223
>
>
> Bob Tanner wrote:
> >
> > Quoting David Guy Brizan (dbrizan@mr.net):
> > > I can't agree with you more, Joel. Throughout the presentation, my
> > > friend was tapping me on the shoulder, saying, "... are they going to
> > > get to the part about fixing the thread library?"
> >
> > You have to remember that RH is trying to bring Linux to the masses. Do you
> > think your average user even knows what a thread library is?
> >
> > Tours = sales/market stuff, if you want to get to the techincal stuff, go to a
> > linux expo.
> >
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