standardization is the key to success
- ethernet
- pc - wide-open implementation of various (hardware) standards
- linux file locations
(sorry, changing that structure won't make a better os.)
- the look and feel of the standard menu bar
everyone knows file = save, save as, print
whether windows or linux

what causes loss in standardization is the years it may take to come to a standard, or a vendor jumping the gun and creating a pseudo-standard, incompatible with anything else.

w/o standardization, mine won't talk to yours.
there is no basis for trade (gallon, liter, euro, dollar)
nor communication (what language we agree to use)
etc.

<--- blank space left to clear the days, hours, minutes thingy...

hello.

most forums have a place
--- to chat
--- to report forum / website problems
--- to make suggestions about the forum / website

:laugh:
i don't ever fill in the blanks truthfully
the last thing i need is yet another site gathering stats on me...

newspaper.

skinny columns.
makes it easy to read lots o' text.

if i 'm posting looong questions / answers
i break it up into short, easy to read phrases
even if the sentence is long.

so, me, i have no problem with the posting area size.

ooo ooo what's that directly above me? could it be?
it is!
hello, eric! :lol:

nice layout. it's clean.

forum breakup?
it's ok; the major distros are listed
so if one has a distro specific comment, there it goes.
===or one could only have debian, slackware and red hat,
the top-level distros, so to speak.
other types of threads drop into appropriate categories.

colors?
well, everyone loves blue, but sooo many sites are
based on that fact.
orange and gray is a well-known, acceptable color combo.

there's a lot of top level links for me to chase, so, it's off i go...

thx for listening! :lol: