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Re: Starting XWin from a portable CD


On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:36:29PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>Christopher Faylor sent the following at Sunday, March 13, 2011 7:07 PM
>>>Fergus sent the following at Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:57 AM
>>>>... Oh woe woe woe. I've
>>>>lost count of the things that worked so easily on 1.5 and somehow
>>>>don't on 1.7, ...
>>>
>>>As I once wrote, 1.5 is the new B20!  ;->
>>
>>On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
>>[E] wrote:
>>
>>And I warned you about this heresy! Why won't you stop? You're upsetting
>>all of the children and farm animals.
>
>I stand corrected and humbled.  B20 will never be surpassed.  Use 1.5 only
>if B20 is unavailable.  1.7 exists only so we call tell people forced to
>use 1.5 that at least it's not 1.7, so what are they complaining about?
>
>And let's not forget that downloading a zip file (over dial-up) every time
>something is updated is clearly better than using setup.

Thanks for the clarification.

cgf


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