KCLUG --> KCMUG?

[Duane Attaway]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Brian Densmore wrote:

> Funny how we also sometimes forget some of the other bad features of M$.
> I was helping a friend last night who had a "problem viewing jpgs". It
> turned into
> a PC training session, but I got really bored as everything I did in M$
> was so 
> -=painfully slow=-. I have gotten spoiled by how much faster everything
> is in Linux.
> Then we also did a defrag on the disk, we let that run overnight.
> True it takes KDE a while to come up after logging in, but each app
> isn't really slow.
> Some are, but not many. At least the ones I use.

Last week, I thought my Linux box was slow: mozilla, gnome, etc... and
decided to start over.  Rather than reinstalling the whole system, I
simply rm'd the X11, mozilla, and the other bloated directories, grabbed
the source, and recompiled overnight.  Mysteriously gained 6GB in the
process... The defaults in new version of X11 were wonderfully
minimalistic and never knew twm was so beautiful.  The latency and speed
issues were the speed of light.  I love a modular system!

Since then, I have been adding features that I want.  Freshmeat.net's
search engine seems to have improved lately and has been the source for
any features I desire to hack in the system.  Long ago, I remember getting
fustrated at the windows offerings that became a bear to make it work for
me or work at all.  Its interesting that even though I have been making
major changes ripping and tearing things up, the system itself never
crashed.  I will take a kill -9 on a bad process over a reboot anyday.

And now, its just cool to customize a system for the family that talks
well with other boxen.  Its great having fammily or friend point out
something difficult to use, so I search for a solution and can often find
it.  The end result of helping others with Linux is that my system ends up
being a joy to use for me to use too.

-=Duane