[ros-general] OK, Time for a few words..

[jwalsh at bigpond.net.au]

If I may add my 2 cents worth.
I too have a spot in my heart for Linux Gui's, both KDE and Gnome.
However the overheads are too high. So I have 3 three Thinkspads on the net.
and a comfortable swivel chair.
IMHO Linux is toooo fat and slow and badly designed, before I get flamed it is only MHO.
So I have tried to compromise (on Particulars, not on Principles).
This was my strategy (for what it is worth): 
Please remember it is only MHO, and not set in concrete.
 I chose the first Linux distro off the block i.e. Slackware because it stuck to basic principles. Yes as simple as that. The old 1440 KB floppy disk (about the size of my limited imagination).
I chose a basic Windows32 platform i.e. 9x
Then I worked on the tiny Linux's (Monkey Linux, and pocket Linux)
Until I discovered Pat Villani's  :
    Linux for Windows 9X
       Home page: http://www.monmouth.com/user_pages/patv/
       Download: ftp://opensourcedepot.com/pub/linux/WinLin9X/v0.2/setup.exe
      Author: Pat Villani (http://www.monmouth.com/user_pages/patv)
      Mailing list: lin4win at opensourcedepot.com
 It was great, it sat neatly in 18 MB.
Then I asked myself, "what the heck am I doing with nearly half a gig of Windows98se?"
Not wanting to bring Microsoft down on my financially poor head:
I downloaded Australian product called 98Lite from LitePC.com (trial version)
I liked it so much I bought the real  thing.
 It gave me the opportunity to unbolt everything which Microsoft told the courts was not possible to do.
 There she was, stripped from nearly half a gig to 50mb, stark naked, but looking like Homer Simpson.
 The speed increase was fantastic. Now I am going for 30 mb, then 16, then 8, then .......
The full story would take too long to tell, so I will leave it at that.
Suffice to say I have now dumped Linux and gone back to Unix BSD and bash.
That is when met Minsys and it was a good feeling.
I was Bourne again, bash'ed about the head, so to speak.
Oh I forgot there is a need for one extra doorway off ros-general  especially for me.
Mark it ros-insane.

Cheers and rosuccess

Justin

---- "Robert Köpferl" <rob at koepferl.de> wrote: 
> Hhmmm, what you tink of is what I call a GDI-Port+win32 of xfree.
> etc
> Richard Campbell wrote:
> > XFree86 has already been ported to windows, whats the point in a ROS port?
> > etc
> > Robert Köpferl wrote:
> > etc
> >> It should be possible to port Xfree86 to ROS (be it win32 or posix) as 
> >> it has been proted to os2.
> >>etc
> >> TwoTailedFox wrote:
> >> etc
> >>> I've seen quite a few users propose ideas, such as a new GUI, or new
> >>> functionality, only to be told it doesn't fit in with the Core Goal of
> >>> ReactOS.
> >>> etc
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