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if you want something like desktopX look up either adesklets, gdesklets, or superkaramba. The first one has the leaset bloat and dependencies

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The slackware vs gentoo choice for distrobution was one of the hardest choices ive made in computing. I went gentoo many because of the philosophy (Start with nothing and building the system from scratch) I would recommend slackware because it teaches people faster than any other distro. I remeber X being usuable but not fully configured on my system. But hey doing xorgconfig is not that complicated to do. I thought alsa was configure

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Dont forget recompiling the kernel with less modules My gentoo start up is somewhere along the line of 15 seconds. (From selecting it on my bootloader to loading up enlightenment and being ready to go. It effin zooms!! You really gotta work at it to get boot times like that though. In fact I would recommend slackware for beginners. just stick it in, f

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Personally, I think the approach MS and Apple take when it comes to including applications with there OS is just bad. OSes should just have OSes. Id rather pay less for an OS then have a bunch of applications bundled with the thing.they should just put in there kernels, filesytem, and desktop enviornment and call it a day. Then they could sell their other trinkets seperately. Then we can worry a little less about viruses from WMP or ITunes mess

Reply to Testing Out Linux. Part 1 in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

And dont worry. Im far from the zealous type. I just dont like when people tell me that windows is just "plain better" and they expect me to accept that.

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Yeah it would be best if this doesn't go into some Linux vs Windows debate. Eventually mac users will come sniffing in and all hell will break loose.............. But..... I gotta respond I may not have created the x86 architecture nor the OS's that run off of it (heck I dont even run x86 on my linux box). But I do know my sof

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Preach. The less you know, the least you are in a position to say whats true. I aint gonna sit there and say windows and linux is better (ok ill say i like linux better). But i will tell you that the advantages u put under windows are just plain false. There are advantages to each OS since an OS is a very complex piece of software with many different approaches. But i will tell you some truths linux file system = better linux

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Last i check, Linux supports WAAAY more hardware than XP. Look at all the system architectures it was designed for including sparc, pcc, good 64 bit versions, ps2, xbox =P, macs. U name it, linux runs it. When it comes to set up it depends on the distro. Suse and Redhat are just as ez to set up as windows (the process is fairly automatic and itll be setting up some hardware) When it comes to more programs, its no contest Linux wins a