[SpamCop-List] Re: automation

[Steven Maesslein]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 02:01:23 +0100, Ant coughed into spamcop and left 
this in <d82sb3$fke$1 at news.spamcop.net>:

> I like the control you get with unix style OS's, but I think their
> GUIs are primitive.

May have been true a few years ago but nowadays both KDE and GNOME have 
plenty of features - to the point where some consider them overbloated.

Of course, that's one of the advantages of a 'nix system running XFree86 
or xorg: you get to choose which GUI you use. If you like a full desktop 
manager the go for KDE or GNOME. If you prefer something much lighter 
then go for a simple window manager like IceWM, BlackBox or twm.

> I'm quite happy at the command line, but I also like fast functional 
> graphics. Perhaps things are improving in this area;

They are - definitely.

> my experience is based on an old version of Red Hat

How old? If more than, say, 2 years (which is about when RH9 was 
released) then you'll hardly recognize it now.

> and various flavours of Solaris (I have an old Sun SPARCstation 20 
> which I play with occasionally).

I suspect the GUI on that machine is a little outdated :)

If you want to play around with a distro before installing it then take 
a look at this:

  http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

(assuming you have a broadband connection and a CD burner)

-- 
Steve

Cat, n:
       Lapwarmer with built-in buzzer.