Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 212.59.138.23]
on May 22, 2008 12:48 PM
I'm using Ark 2008.1 - and both of my USB mice work fine, even when they're both plugged in at the same time. You seem to have some really odd hardware there...
Ark took my notebook's display straight to another fairly nonstandard resolution (1440x1050), but this is probably decided by the graphics chipset -- Intel graphics chips seem to adjust to the right resolution just fine (it is really great to have a chipset with a vendor-supported free xorg driver! Thanks Intel!), while nvidia ones go to 1024x768. Haven't tried ATI...
I strongly disagree with what you're saying about the Ark (lack of) Security System in the review -- it is one of the things that make me keep going to Ark.
I don't want to be bothered with password prompts all the time, and I don't want to do the insane thing of just working as root all the time either -- but for pretty much all other distros I've seen, it's either one of those.
Ark gets it totally right -- normal applications run as an unprivileged users, so even if someone tricks me into launching an "rm -rf /" script, the system can't be damaged -- but when I need to do root stuff, I can do it without being prompted all the time.
Yes, it allows people who have physical access to my computer to do stuff as root -- big deal, I trust the people who can get into my house, and if someone bad comes there, he can steal the computer or take out the harddisk anyway --- and due to the fact that the default accounts are _locked_ to the outside world, remote security is just what it should be.
As for substituting the GIMP for scribus, that's like asking to replace a spreadsheet application with a word processor -- they aren't meant for the same thing. Scribus is a desktop publishing application, GIMP is an image editor.
If you want to see what Ark has instead of GIMP, look at Krita -- that one actually does the same thing and is much nicer than GIMP (yes, it is lacking a few of GIMP's power features at the moment, but unlike GIMP's its user interface is something people can figure out).
Also, in terms of diskspace usage:
GIMP is 12 MB and requires more than 40 MB worth of libraries that aren't part of a standard Ark installation because nothing else needs them.
KRITA is 5.5 MB and doesn't drag in any superfluous extra libraries.
scribus is 12 MB and doesn't drag in any superfluous extra libraries either.
Besides, if someone really needs gimp, they can just apt-get install it -- the current version is included in Ark's repositories.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 212.59.138.23] on May 22, 2008 12:48 PMArk took my notebook's display straight to another fairly nonstandard resolution (1440x1050), but this is probably decided by the graphics chipset -- Intel graphics chips seem to adjust to the right resolution just fine (it is really great to have a chipset with a vendor-supported free xorg driver! Thanks Intel!), while nvidia ones go to 1024x768. Haven't tried ATI...
I strongly disagree with what you're saying about the Ark (lack of) Security System in the review -- it is one of the things that make me keep going to Ark.
I don't want to be bothered with password prompts all the time, and I don't want to do the insane thing of just working as root all the time either -- but for pretty much all other distros I've seen, it's either one of those.
Ark gets it totally right -- normal applications run as an unprivileged users, so even if someone tricks me into launching an "rm -rf /" script, the system can't be damaged -- but when I need to do root stuff, I can do it without being prompted all the time.
Yes, it allows people who have physical access to my computer to do stuff as root -- big deal, I trust the people who can get into my house, and if someone bad comes there, he can steal the computer or take out the harddisk anyway --- and due to the fact that the default accounts are _locked_ to the outside world, remote security is just what it should be.
As for substituting the GIMP for scribus, that's like asking to replace a spreadsheet application with a word processor -- they aren't meant for the same thing. Scribus is a desktop publishing application, GIMP is an image editor.
If you want to see what Ark has instead of GIMP, look at Krita -- that one actually does the same thing and is much nicer than GIMP (yes, it is lacking a few of GIMP's power features at the moment, but unlike GIMP's its user interface is something people can figure out).
Also, in terms of diskspace usage:
GIMP is 12 MB and requires more than 40 MB worth of libraries that aren't part of a standard Ark installation because nothing else needs them.
KRITA is 5.5 MB and doesn't drag in any superfluous extra libraries.
scribus is 12 MB and doesn't drag in any superfluous extra libraries either.
Besides, if someone really needs gimp, they can just apt-get install it -- the current version is included in Ark's repositories.
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