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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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