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I don't think we are over saturated with good "desktop" distros, but we are
over saturated with too many distros that have some nagging problem that
prevents average people from easily using them . Which brings up the question:
How do you add a button to the KDE 3.1 taskbar? I know you can drag something
off the menu, but when you choose something like "add button launcher' it
only gives the choice of picking from the menu again. Then I tried to copy
an existing button and edit it, but then my changes don't really stick. Is
this a Mandrake 9.1 thing or what? It should be easier to add your own generic
button to the task bar. Any solution would be greatly appreciated because
this is one of the primary reasons I never use KDE and stick with ICEwm.
With ICE, I'm in the driver's seat. I can do it, and it sticks.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I think Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer) goals are good ones. It sounds
like the sort of distro I would be interested in. At some point the
"market" is going to be over saturated.
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I think we've reached that point years ago... Hell, we've got:
Red Hat
SuSE
Mandrake
Debian
Slackware
Xandros
Lindows
Yellow Dog
Sun Linux
Knoppix
SCO (gag)
TurboLinux
EnGarde
LibraNet
And a slew of others, check the LWN List:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://old.lwn.net/Distributions/">http://old.lwn.net/Distributions/</a>
There's nothing wrong with it - I think the variety is great, and every
now and again something like Knoppix pops up that's insanely great and
useful.. but the market is definitely saturated.
Right now I'm using five different distros: KRUD (Red Hat), Mandrake,
SuSE, Debian and Slackware. (Yes, I DO have too many computers, thanks
for asking...) I kind of feel that I have to keep the five major systems
around so that I can write about "Linux" without being distro-centric.
And I use Knoppix to test new machines and as a portable distro. I hear
great things about Gentoo, but I've been too busy to try it.
It's nice having choices, though, isn't it? Much better than the "Ve haf
vays of makink you use XP" attitude from Redmond.
Best,
Zonker
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