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The Open Source Definition. In short, it means what you said and more.

The Composite extension, which is responsible for the eye-candy, is extremely unstable. It crashed twice for me while I was fiddling with transparency. The first time resulted in spectacular video corruption and complete loss of response to input; I had to do a remote login to bring the system down to single-user and then pound on the Magic SysRq key until I got a console. The second crash just kicked me out to a console. It's also slow as molasses, produces artifacts, the drop-shadow fade effect makes menus disappear, and occasionally all the windows except for the root window will vanish

I come bearing eye candy from X11R6.8. Behold, drop shadows! Behold, transparency! Behold, the X server exploded! login:

Ah, so it isn't just us then. Charter seems to be trying to slowly consolidate all of their offices into one big office located precisely in the middle of nowhere, ensuring that no customers will ever receive reasonable service. As for satellite, the one insurmountable technical issue is the speed of light. Latency is pretty bad and won't get any better.

Good place to start. You can order CDs from... somewhere. What do you mean by "file size"?

It is legal if you're making backups. One of the several exceptions the law makes for software.

Heh, we really need to get some more people in here. Or change the name of the board to "Linux/Unix Screenshots"

Want to keep this board a bit active but don't have anything useful to say, so here's a another screenshot, this time of Fluxbox on my DragonFly machine (style is slightly hacked version of Shade). GVIM and Moz are running on my Linux box. The GVIM menubar font's slightly enormous because of some inconsistency between the display settings on the two machines that I don't care enough about to investigate.

It wouldn't surprise me if that's defensive marketing. Bungie may be smarting from the Halo platform fiasco. "It's a Mac game, no wait a Windows and Mac game, no wait an XBox, Windows and Mac game, no wait an XBox game but we'll have Windows and Mac versions, but they'll be late."

Linux still doesn't have write support for NTFS though. If you just need to access the partition(s) it's fine, otherwise FAT32 is your best bet.

Right now I'm bouncing between GNOME and Fluxbox, but I spend more time in the former. As for booting, my Gentoo box boots into... erm... 'default'... just a second. Ah, runlevel 3. But it starts GDM automatically. I used to boot to the console for the same reason you do, but it turned out I very seldom didn't need X. My DragonFly box on the other hand still boots to the console, so that I can fix things.

GNOME 2.6.2 on Gentoo. Everything is tiny because I was too lazy to resize my desktop :-)

Suppose it's time I delurk. So. Here I am.