7.4.2 - KDE brain damage fixes - ep.1 - Xscreensaver by Bill Gates

**chris_Xnest** · 01-02-2015, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by utu

FWIW
I'm using Knoppix 7.4.2.
It only took about five minutes to upgrade screensaver to 5.30 using Synaptic.
Its author errs in using a pop-up approach to tell us to upgrade, that's all.
This screensaver is a classic; I think we should overlook a small social error.

Hm, "error"?? Well guess what, this "error" has been there at least since version 5.22. If this was a true "error", the almighty copyright owner would have fixed it by now, wouldn't he? What I see is he did not and instead people came up with a patch long before I posted this message, hence what I said remains true: "the very intelligent author of this Xscreen***er put his copyright there along with his web site address and name so anyone can praise him. Starting 2015 Jan 01, 00:00."

And what do you call upgrading? The necessity to install the whole thing on a HDD like a regular OS? Or to keep maintaining an everinflating persistent image? That defeats the very purpose of a Live Linux. I don't need that. If I do any upgrades/changes I do it once and forever, by remastering. After that, the OS will stay frozen in its compressed image. No system breakdown, corruption, viruses, defragmenting and other garbage. So the Microsoftian idea of upgrading things forever and ever is not applicable here. And no way because some superficial intelligence yells at me to do that every time I start the OS. I get anough of this garbage at work where I still have to put up with Micro**it.

But that's beside the point. Nobody forces anybody to do Open Source programming. If one has Microsoftian impulses why don't they go work for Micro**it and spare us? I'm fed up with these people. If this XscreenBS is copyrighted, why isn't it taken out of the GNU pool? What's it still doimg here??? I don't need this kind of garbage in my OS. besides, I really can't find ONE SINGLE SCREENSAVER in the whole damn thing thet I can say I honestly can get along with !! I could really extirpate this garbage completely and I might end up doing just that. A waste of space.