First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:45:38 PDT 2004


An unnamed Administration source, Joel Hammer, wrote:
% Yes, but at least they give them different names! I heard some guru's
% complaining that the menus in lindows were labelled generically, eg. web
% browser instead of netscape. Calling elvis,vi, and vim all vi is really
% confusing.

Agreed. Slackware install elvis as the default "vi" but also ships vim
xvim (bleah). I've become too accustomed to elvis' peculiarities and 
care for vim's habit of dropping .viminfo in my home directory without
my permission.

Grmph.

Kurt
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