things sure are big now
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:31:47 GMT,
What does DSL have?
I'm buttuming that this Bush Depression that you speak of is the one that began in April-2000 when the dot-coms went bust. That was on Clintons watch. During 1998-2000 the tech-sector of...
XMMS (MP3, CD Music, and MPEG), FTP client, Dillo web browser, links web browser, FireFox, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor (FLwriter), three editors (Beaver, Vim, and Nano Pico clone), graphics editing and viewing (Xpaint, and xzgv), Xpdf (PDF Viewer), emelFM (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, Rdesktop, SSH-SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE (ADSL), a web server, calculator, generic and GhostScript printer support, NFS, Fluxbox window manager, games, system monitoring apps, a host of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support, some wireless support.
All within 50MB, also, if you want more apps, there's a package management system, called mydsl which has a lot more stuff for those that have the space.
one of the repository mirrors.
Apps like Audacity, Blender, inkscape, GIMP...
your original statement was
Hi All, The article below says programming is like manufacturing, ...tedious work best left to lowrent, thirdclbutt, Asians. RachelKonrad, an APTechWriter, wrote at Yahoo.COM: As an eager freshman in the fall of...
"No kidding. I remember Slackware from '97. I installed the entire thing on a 540 MB disk and had a couple hundred megs free afterwards. Now you can't fit squat on a disk of that size if you want a GUI. "
I think I have shown that to be in error.
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-- Does Emacs have the Buddha nature? Why not? It has bloody well everything else
Programming is low_rent... like manufacturing
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