Re: Some thoughts

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

> 
> JF Martinez wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone disagreeing?
> > 
> 
> I just can't get used to Blender, but it is well possible that I am the
> only one having troubles.
> 

You really need the manual to do anthing with it but now there is
atutorail and I will include it with Blender.

While the UI of Blender is sometimes a bit weird there is no other
program playing in the same league unless you go to Houdini (20
thousand dollars per seat)

> > and Code Crusader.  Kdevelop seems very good but I fear it being too
> > focused on development for KDE.  Anyone has tried it?
> 
> Their GUI builder is anyway KDE + Qthingy. For GNOME also gide (IDE) and
> Glade (GUI builder) exist. Don't know if you wish to have it building
> GUI's, too.
> 
> > 
> > I would like to add an educational programming language for kids:
> > Python is avery good one but it does not have the fun examples needed
> > for this target, alternatives would be ucblogo and squeak (a smalltalk
> > clone made by Disney and Apple available at www.squeak.org who seems
> > to come with loads of nice examples)
> > 
> 
> Squeak, please! Their aim is our aim, and I am in love with their piece
> of software.
> 
> > for Maxwell plus new packages for logos, and indexhtml.  By the way I
> > would really like someone taking charge of inddexhtml: it it is this
> > file containing silly sentences like 'Thank you for choosing our
> > distribution' and frankly I am not inspired by it.
> 
> More on these logo's: do you feel like having another logo, do you have
> a good idea? (what's that painting that you talked about?)
> 

The problem is not creating a new logo but building a modified RedHat
logos RPM with symlinks pointing to Indy logos instead of RedHat
(using the RedHat logo would cause problems) and building an IUndy
Logos RPM containing "La Liberte" at differnt sizes.  Is so boring
only thinking in it I fall asleep.

Then there is the indexhtml file

> >  Anyone volunteering for this?
> 
> Oh, well, I could write something..
>  
> > Speaking of goals I would like to issue ASAP an announce on freshmeat
> > and LWN stating them but we need a short text (10 lines) summarizing
> > the web page.  Volunteers?  Benefits: getting a bigger exposure and
> > perhaps some people, problem: managing them, need to beef  the
> > infrastructure.
> 
> Don't know. Maybe I'll try, but I am not sure if I can.
> 
> > Tonight I learned gcc-2.95 has still some bugs who will probably force
> > me to return to egcs and recompile everything I generated with gcc.
> > :-(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
> > 
> 
> How is PGCC for the pentiums?
> 

I fear PGCC has all the bugs of the GCC it is based upon and then some
of its own.  However I never tried it given I use a K6-2 (benchamrks
prove PGCC provides zero benefits on AMD CPU's)

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
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