A man was taking his wife, who was pregnant with twins, to the hospital when his car went out of control and crashed. Regaining consciousness, he saw his brother, a relentless practical joker, sitting at his bed side.
He asked his brother how his wife was doing and his brother said, "Don't worry, everybody is fine and you have a son and a daughter. But the hospital was in a real hurry to get the birth certificates filed and since both you and your wife were unconscious, I named them for you."
The husband was thinking to himself, "Oh no, what has he done now?" and asked with some trepidation, "Well, bro, what did you name them?"
Whereupon, his brother replied, "I named the little girl Denise."
The husband, relieved, said, "That's a lovely name! And what did you come up with for my son?"
The brother winked and replied, "Denephew."
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OK since you suffered through that...
I reloaded XP this week on my desktop because it was severly trashed out and afterward I loaded Desktop BSD (dual boot). This is a FreeBSD distro designed for easy installation and use. Boy was it ever! The install went without a hitch. It seems that the BSD world is KDE oriented and I have been a Gnome user for many years. I think it is going to be nice to do things a little different for a while.
The package installer is a little slower than Debian's synaptic, but it did pretty well. I had one glitch installing Gimp. Since it is GTK based I had to install all the librarys. That took about a half hour. When it was finished, there was some kind of library problem and GIMP would not run. Bummer!. There was another GIMP port that was forked to resemble Photoshop in it's functionality. I loaded that one and it installed quickly and without a problem. After that I tried two or three other packages and installation went smoothly.
I have noticed that my hard drive doesn't "crank" as much. I don't know if this because of BSD or because of KDE. Anyway.....Got a new toy....and it didn't cost a dime and that's the best kind! |
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