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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (2334)	10/17/2000 6:22:25 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

I found FVWM 2.2.4 to be just a tad piggier than 1.2.4 But I found no added features that I cared for. For a window manager I don't know of any added features that I'd want beyond 1.2.4. Since 1.2.4 Window manager development has been about emulating the beautifully designed OS of the month by Bill Gates. The reality to me is that Linux is so fragmented that a common core of functionality will never occur and MSFT dominance will continue as a very high percentage of users. There are industrial apps that will go to Linux, but not the desktop. It's to hard for even me to keep up. Sound and java and netscape are all areas fraught with incompatibility. The last distributions 6.1 mandrake have the 1.2.4 rpm. I'm waiting for 7.? from redhat and mandrake. I'd assume that there is no problem in running 1.2.4 on current distributions. I've found that gnome apps run on fvwm so that at that level problems are not being introduced this five minutes. Tom Watson tosiwmee