On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 19:51, Temlakos wrote: > > And at the risk of going from the sublime to the ridiculous, why not > include a real minimalist desktop, like Ice? Because the apparently most popular minimalist desktop nowadays is XFCE, and it's already included? > And why doesn't Fedora include WINE? When it was dropped from Red Hat Linux a while back, the explanation was along the lines of it being in so much of a development stage that any packaged version shipped with the distro would always be outdated. There's also of course the potential of getting Microsoft on your back for shipping a Windows compatibility layer; there may be patent issues involved, and Red Hat has a tendency to be cautious about such things. (I don't know of what might be involved on that front, but Microsoft is pretty good at laying out IP minefields.) > One last thing--I have a client whose biggest lament is that he can't > get onto AOL except by using a browser. How about reviving the Penggy > project to create a proper AOL client? (I already checked: WINE can't > run the Windows AOL client. Somebody tried, and it blew up. It's all > that stuff that AOL's installer puts into the protocol stack.) Some of us avoid AOL like the plague. What exactly does an AOL client do that a browser doesn't? /Per -- Per Bjornsson <perbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University