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slave:

quote: i know how even to use xpiss thats were i figured out its smb problems, it wouldn't share to a win98 machine
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It shares fine with the Win98 machine next to me.

All this ranting means nothing; admit it, Linux needs a new display manager.  X is very old, and it needs to be put down.  Why don't you have a read here.

choasforages:
agian true, x11 is quite odd but it doesn't need to be put away yet, and it does have problems, read the fortune cookie files, theres plenty of good jokes about xwindows in there. then again if i had money/*come one im only 15 and 9 months old, in my state that has some signifigance*/ i would have a mac, aqua is deffenitly awsome,

Chooco:

quote:XP Luser said this:
If someone could make an operating system that was as powerful as Windows XP or Mac OS X but ran on a 486, I would worship them as a programming god. Desktop Linux needs at least a 800 mhz processor and about 512 mb RAM, which is quite sad. (unless you use Window Maker or TWM) (cringe)
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ok that's just a LITTLE bit wrong
-WinXP is not fast, it takse 5 minutes for my AthlonXP 1700+ with 512MB DDR RAM to boot
-Linux DOES run on a 486, notice how things are named whatever_i386 or whatever_i486
-my Celeron 500 runs as a good desktop when it's not running a game server in the background to lag the thin down (server has extreme priority so if people start doin stuff i can feel the lag). my Celeron is actually faster than my Athlon for what i do in the desktop.....the scrolling is laggy though because ATI video cards are not supporting worth a crap  :(
-my Celeron 500 has 384mb of PC100 SDRAM and according to KDE process manager, 250mb or so is unused and 100% of the pagefil is still free

Calum:
the person who started this thread did so in a sensible and intelligent fashion.

XP Loser has dominated the replies with half baked nonsense that is phrased so as to sound as convinving as possible.

It only remains for me to apologise on behalf of the forums for allowing windows xp user to do this when people come here genuinely asking for help.

At this time i can only request that people ignore xp user in the hope of getting some sort of coherency out of these forums. This thread i feel is too far gone, filled as it is with lies and insults. I am ashamed that a sensible question could have been treated in such a disrespectful way.

If i had my way, xp user would have left these forums a long time ago. Free speech however is a relative concept.

choasforages:
can you screem fire in a movie theater?
can you make prank calls to the cops?
can you lie to people?
can you wear something with the work fuck on it in public?

you can do these things but there are consequense for doing them. besides i have more fun trying to help people figure out what is wrong and sharing my knowledge with others. i think that most feel the same way.  i would rather be part of a sensible post then a flamewar, i will not respond to flamebait in the future, no matter how tempting. i think that most should take calums advice on this matter

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