<OT> Re: CorelDraw - Redhat 9 ?

[Tim Wunder]

On 4/11/2003 10:41 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
>>On 4/11/2003 1:10 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>On 04/10/03 21:15, Michael Fakaro wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>>>I normally wouldn't bother to upgrade but what I'm hearing is the
>>>>desktop is a lot more responsive in RH9.
>>>
>>>
>>>the desktop?  linux doesn't have a 'desktop', it has window managers.
>>>
>>
>>Oh come off it, Lonnie. For crying out loud, linux certainly *does* have
>>a 'desktop', several of them, in fact, including your beloved XFCE.
> 
> 
> wow, someone is either lacking or having too much of something today.
> 
> At any rate, XFCE is a 'desktop environment'.

Wait, "a 'desktop environment'", huh? I stand corrected...
Enlighten me, how, exactly, is a 'desktop environment' different from a 
'desktop'?
Is a 'desktop environment' the same as a 'window manager'? Must be, cuz 
linux has those, but not desktops.

> ...  Redhat9 ships with more
> than just one, so stating that "the desktop"

wait a minute... linux doesn't have desktops, you've told us all that... 
just a couple e-mails ago. now you're telling us that red hat 9 comes 
with more than one of something that doesn't exist?

> ... is alot more responsive
> really has no meaning, especially if its the kernel that is making the
> system more responsive.
> 

No meaning? Why? Because it's the kernel that is responsible? Who cares 
*why* the desktop is more responsive, that's not at issue.

Seems someone has a burning need to be right all the time...