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Article #448Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 18:02
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 18:02
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Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote: : Actually you're completely clueless and haven't understood _anything_ : of the design philosophy of XFree86. If it were to provide the same : functionality as Windows, it wouldn't have needed any configuration files : at all. But it was designed with a different goal in mind and for a : different audience... You are going off on a tangent, the design philosphy of X is irrelevant. The real problem is the lack of good configuration software. In case you forgot, my original point was only that in some ways some linux products are still catching up to Windows and Mac. Slackware being one example. Yggdrasil being an example of something done in a better fashion. : ... Guys like you should stick to Windows; XFree86 is : _not_ for them. It's as simple as this. I actually use linux quite a bit, but it works only on my older and simpler hardware. Newer hardware gives it some problems. Tony -- ------------------ Tony Tribelli adtribelli@acm.org
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