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To: mowa who wrote (8391)	12/29/1999 3:38:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 9798

Well I stand corrected on Wine but not. The problem is that one of the difficulties of the Open Source software development effort is the ability to get testing by a broad cross section of dumb users. So Wine is a particular problem in that all developers are guessing at what that win32 API calls are really doing. Getting to the level of integrity of ported software is very difficult. But also the target is already obsolete. So win32 API, whatever you want to call it is a very bitter wine. In gui I like the old fvwm as it is functional and very lean. This pic watman.com Shows dual display fvwm2(I think) and three Linux dis are in the background. But watman.com shows a closeup of the fvwm pager that allow me to keep track of dozens of open apps on multible displays. Now KDE is slow and I've not really played with gnome. FVWM is so good with so many benefits and I so familiar with it, I have no reason to look for a better solutions. I've found the 98% ergonomic fit. As to printer support. Only cheap high resolution color ink-jet is a problem. Laser and black and white is not. Also color postscript may work just fine. But that is a barrier to home desktop use. I do all my real work with redhat 5.2. I've 6.0 or 6.1 installed on a few of my non display compute servers. But I working on getting my xserver up. Multidisplay has lots of special requirement and my watman.com sw1600 flats with the number nine cards are interesting. I have on average a half dozen pentium pro computers running all the time for work(trading stock) and play. But one or more computers may may be configured as watman.com notice cpu fan is spining. Damn computer cases just get in the way anyhow. For a discussion of my pooters. watman.com. Tom Watson tosiwmee