Re: Pre announce

[Taco Witte <mail@tcwitte.myweb.nl>]

Hello world!

At 23-10-00 3:06:00, you wrote:
>-Gimp's manual so you can really use all the power of Gimp.  It is in
> PDF format because it gives better quality than HTML and this quality
> is crucial in a program like GIMP.  For now you will have to use xpdf
> for viewing it but I intend to add Acrobat reader in future releases

> I also added the whole cupsomatic database so you get far more
> hardware support than in the original GPL version of CUPS.  I merged
This doesn't give any copyright problems? I would suggest to make the
system in such a way that copying is no problem.

>yourself.  But now we have to think in people who are only computer
>users and have to care for themselves since their first minute.  That
>means that Linux people should not accept being bullied into using a
>program just because it is in Unix tradition.
I certainly agree with that.

>-Mandrake is easier and better than Indy.  Indy is faster but this is not
>enough.
Why not Mandrake as basis instead of Redhat? It's more up to date, and
already (more than Redhat) focusing on the desktop user.

>Speaking of speed.  I would need someone with a Celeron/PII/PIII
>box accepting to recompile the glibc for 686 so we can put it at Indy
>standards.  It is as simple as downloading an SRPM, then "rpm -U
>glibc.srpm" then "rpm -bb --target=i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/glibc.spec".
>This would make Indy faster.  I cannot do it myself since the building
>involves running a program generated by this compilation and that program
>will use P6 instructions unavailable to my K6/2.  Contact me if you want
>to help.
I would like to help, but I cannot download large files, my connection doesn't
permet me to. I have a PIII processor and currently Mandrake 7.1 installed,
without any important updates.

Regards,
Taco Witte