Xgl, wow!

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> I installed Linux recently and was amazed at how easy it has become in
> the 12 or so years since I last installed it.  It was actually easier to
> install than Windows, and the application install/upgrade tools are a
> sight better than Windows as well (though they don't seem to indicated
> *where* they've installed something, which is a tad confusing when I'm
> installing kernel headers and such).

One annoying thing with these Windows Installshield wizards is that they
usually save both the uninstall-files and the original application
installation packages (.cab) in some windows/user tmp-folder. If you
remove those files, it becomes impossible to uninstall the software.
They are not that small (sometimes hundreds of megabytes) and might even
reserve more space than the program itself.

> I tried Ubuntu and Fedora
> recently, and found Ubuntu to be the easier of the two to install, but
> as it's a single CD install it lacks the "out of the box" functionality
> available in the fixe CD (or one DVD) Fedora.  Still, that simply means

I've heard that FC5 is badly broken. Some problems with LVM, booting and
networking.

> I choose a bunch of stuff from the install/upgrade tool, which takes all
> of ten minutes and guarantees I'm not getting extra stuff I don't want.
>  Linux is getting darn close to being a viable primary OS IMO.
> Particularly with VM software for running the few Windows apps I still
> need (WINE being an alternative in some cases).

Wine + free VMWare server both work nicely. It's even possible to play
old windows games, but some old programs with low-level I/O don't work
so well.

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Jari-Matti