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Found this floating over in alt.linux :

I just installed Linux 8.2 after friends and many many websites said I need
to be using it.. after dreaming I could actually install it and use it... I
after trying before (failed) I just did it again and success is sweet!! I am
an X windows user.. I want to get away from windows because now I realize
how stupid I am when it comes to computing.. after thinking I was the shit
cuz I could click and use plug and prey.. I feel great.. I love the way
Linux looks and feels , I am learning computing all over again.. THE RIGHT
WAY!! I bought a couple books... subscribed to this wonderful group and have
searched the net looking for noob help.. I won't bore ya with questions..
just wanna let ya know I have joined up here and maybe someday I can help
someone else.. there is plenty of help online for noobs..and after the last
couple days on this group.. I learned a thing or two also so it helps for
realtime help with bizarr needs.. thanks to the people that make up this
group!!
Peace!
ok.. one question.. where the hell is TUX (cept for the screensaver of him
flying in a spaceship) in Mandrake 8.2????

===

It's amazing just how many people are coming over to LGX and loving it
despite all the noise from the wintrolls, isn't it?

;-)

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did they point him to TuxRacer and TuxKart?

Quote:

> It's amazing just how many people are coming over to LGX and loving it
> despite all the noise from the wintrolls, isn't it?

why do you think the noise from them is rising so much... I see they're now
accusing us of copying programs now the argument of "lack of commercial
quality software" is no longer valid... rather strange as microsoft hasn't
produced an "original" program itself yet... they bought in Flight Sim off
of BAO. Office suites were around long before ms-windows and PIM software
and email programs were out before ms-windows as well. There aren't any
original games from microsoft either, just more FPS and racing games and
other sad extensions to existing genre.

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Quote:>> It's amazing just how many people are coming over to LGX and loving it
>> despite all the noise from the wintrolls, isn't it?

> why do you think the noise from them is rising so much... I see they're
> now accusing us of copying programs now the argument of "lack of
> commercial quality software" is no longer valid... rather strange as
> microsoft hasn't produced an "original" program itself yet... they bought
> in Flight Sim off of BAO. Office suites were around long before ms-windows
> and PIM software and email programs were out before ms-windows as well.
> There aren't any original games from microsoft either, just more FPS and
> racing games and other sad extensions to existing genre.

What people are also doing is this. They are writing down what they use the
computer for, they realise that Windows 9x/ME is an unstable hunk of shit,
so they think, hmm, Windows XP or Linux? well, why don't we give this Linux
thing a try.  A couple of months later, they are happy users, getting on
with life.

As for the issue about licensing. Most people, contry to certain peoples
opinion, don't view installing software onto more than computer as illegal.
The average person thinks they have actually bought the software, when in
actual fact, all they have done is bought permission to use it, just as a
driving license allows you to drive on a road.

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Quote:> Found this floating over in alt.linux :

> I just installed Linux 8.2 after friends and many many websites said I need
> to be using it.. after dreaming I could actually install it and use it... I
> after trying before (failed) I just did it again and success is sweet!! I am
> an X windows user.. I want to get away from windows because now I realize
> how stupid I am when it comes to computing.. after thinking I was the shit
> cuz I could click and use plug and prey.. I feel great.. I love the way
> Linux looks and feels , I am learning computing all over again.. THE RIGHT
> WAY!! I bought a couple books... subscribed to this wonderful group and have
> searched the net looking for noob help.. I won't bore ya with questions..
> just wanna let ya know I have joined up here and maybe someday I can help
> someone else.. there is plenty of help online for noobs..and after the last
> couple days on this group.. I learned a thing or two also so it helps for
> realtime help with bizarr needs.. thanks to the people that make up this
> group!!
> Peace!
> ok.. one question.. where the hell is TUX (cept for the screensaver of him
> flying in a spaceship) in Mandrake 8.2????

> ===

> It's amazing just how many people are coming over to LGX and loving it
> despite all the noise from the wintrolls, isn't it?

No doubt Ewik will pounce on me for this but thanks rapskat for
posting this. For some reason I never get bored with all the positive
news about Linux. In a similar vein I never get bored about all the
negative news regarding MS. Both are increasing at a wonderful
rate. Keep up the great Linux advocating rapskat.

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Quote:> Or maybe it means "Linux GNU X (Window System), which is in fact partially
> bass ackwards.

You think?  Seems to make sense to me...

Linux kernel:  Everything else runs on top of this as it is the core of the
platform so it should be of course be referred to first.

GNU tools and utilities:  These are the myriad tools, apps and utilities as
provided by the GNU Project that make the platform a whole and complete
Operating System.

X11 or X Free86 or X-Windows:  This provides the Graphical environment that
has become so integral with modern desktop computing.

Of course, I suppose if you really wanted to get specific, you could include
a Windows Manager/Desktop Environment in there, Like KDE (LGXK) or GNOME
(LGXG) or even WindowMaker (LGXWM), but since these are subject to the
personal preferences of the individual, it will not accurately represent
every LGX user's system, whereas "LGX" most certainly does since this is the
core of the desktop users' system.

Besides, "LGX" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

;-)

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