Comments on: What’s to like?

By: Still with ConnochaetOS « Motho ke motho ka botho

Still with ConnochaetOS « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:38:00 +0000

[...] that unfortunately relies on Xorg to do most of the dirty work, and on a machine this slow, I have no faith in X and [...]

By: Xorg or Wayland: Color me disinterested « Motho ke motho ka botho

Xorg or Wayland: Color me disinterested « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:47:10 +0000

[...] a long time ago that I could move closer to my goals by omitting X altogether. When I jettisoned the aging, bloated crowbait, life suddenly turned [...]

By: hal’s day of reckoning « Motho ke motho ka botho

hal’s day of reckoning « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:08:11 +0000

[...] Not that there’s much to love in Xorg in the first place, but dealing with hal as an intermediary ranks near the bottom on my all-time least favorite things to do. Somewhere around “walking barefoot on broken glass” and “getting a root canal.” [...]

By: That split-second realization « Motho ke motho ka botho

That split-second realization « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:22:02 +0000

[...] is a monstrous 5441Kb. Of course, you could argue in reply that Leafpad won’t run without the software morass called Xorg, which outweighs vim on a proportional [...]

By: Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 Beta 1 « Doesn't Not Compute

Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 Beta 1 « Doesn't Not Compute — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:32:24 +0000

[...] Note that the application versions may change as this beta approaches release date. For example, I ran an update/upgrade while writing this, and now the Empathy client is at Empathy 2.29.93. A lot of stuff updated on that one . . . Also, note what is NOT in the list of core software: HAL. I expect K. Mandla will be very happy with this. [...]

By: Your way is the right way « Motho ke motho ka botho

Your way is the right way « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:21:48 +0000

[...] the collective Linux psyche, however minimal. I don’t expect to see everyone dropping Xorg, the sluggard, just because I point out its rotundity, but if you find yourself leaning more and more toward a [...]

By: What was I thinking? « Motho ke motho ka botho

What was I thinking? « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:29:31 +0000

[...] No thanks. I’ll stick with what I know. I cloned the drive before installing Arch, and it’ll only take me an hour and a half to put the old system back in place over USB1.1. Always have a Plan B. (Or was it C … ?) [...]

By: A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:23:16 +0000

[...] most of the setup and tweaking required with building your own system. X, on the whole, is a bloated twisted train wreck of an application suite, and one I heartily recommend you drop like a bad habit. But until something better comes along, [...]

By: An X for every application « Motho ke motho ka botho

An X for every application « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:55:08 +0000

[...] or need — to. After all, I’m normally I’m opposed to X in general, on account of the weight it has put on in recent months (years?). But something as quick and easy as this actually might prove … well, quicker and [...]

By: Unsolved mysteries: X in 1Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Unsolved mysteries: X in 1Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:05:17 +0000

[...] X in that post is a year-old version. Over the past year, X has incurred a lot of bloat — or what I would call bloat — and that too can come into play. It’s almost preferable to me to run an outdated [...]