110202 Brian Waters wrote: > I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu > -- I heard it "just works" and that is a Good Thing -- > only to find that I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again.
When I set up my little EEE netbook 2009 , I considered alternatives, but quickly decided that Gentoo really does just work & is a good thing, ie once you've put in the time to install it properly. > I'd like to know if HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I eliminated it successfully a long time ago: it seems to be needed by the KDE desktop, but not by the KDE apps I use. I don't like the KDE 4 desktop, so use Fluxbox, which I strongly recommend as something else which just works once you've set it up to taste. BTW there are reports of problems with Xfce 4.8 . -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
