[SATLUG] Beryl - what does it get you?

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Talking about this, is there a way to install puppy linux on a hard drive
(have not had a lot of time to play with it) and make it the default
OS...    Love the way it handles things like networking etc...   lots of
good utilities on there, would want to install it on some X86 drives on old
machines and use them for odds and ends..

Glenn T.

On 8/10/07, ed <etillman93 at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
> Hector Bojorquez wrote:
> > hmm..
> > the curmudgeons fail to understand that eye-candy explorations are
> > experiments in usability...
> > if it were up to them.. we'd all be still using command lines for
> > EVERYTHING....and the technology would fail to serve its masters... as
> > opposed to the other way around.
> >
> > personally.. it looks kinda cool to me..
> >
> >
> > On 8/7/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/7/07, ed <etillman93 at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It looks real pretty; kinda even mimics Macroshaft Windoze Siesta.
> >>> Question?  Why?  What _/does/_  it get you?
> >>>
> >> Well, let's see.  It never fails to get a rise out of curmudgeons on
> >> LUG mailing lists.
> >>
> >>
> >>> I came to Linux to escape resource-hogging eye-candy for its own
> >>> benefit.  This seems a step backward in the process...
> >>>
> >> A desktop GUI should be functional AND beautiful.  Beryl has useful
> >> features such as the ability to zoom and read small text, an "Exposé"
> >> feature that shows previews of all open windows, negative view,
> >> opacify, and real alpha transparency for all applications.  These can
> >> be useful features for the vision-impaired and  disabled people who
> >> might have a hard time using a mouse.  Personally, I just like eye
> >> candy.  ;)
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> Yeah...  I s'pose I can be am ol' curmudgeon at times...  Its just that
> I'm exploring Linux as a way to beat Vista. The last thing I really want
> to do is mimic it.  I want the functionality I'm accustomed to, in a
> smaller, faster footprint, and Linux supplies that in spades -- a 5.9GB
> Linux (Ubuntu) footprint vs an 11.9 Windoze XP footprint on the same
> laptop?  Which way seems more practical for the same functionality?
> Now...  If I could only get my networks functioning properly...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ed
>
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