Above the shrieking & FUDding of the trolls,Gregory Shearman was heard
to say:
> On 2009-08-11, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Homer belched out
>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> If anything will drive people to Linux, it will be this Registry
>>>> centric architecture of Windows. Linux does not use this concept,
>>>> although some maniacs are promoting the idea for some unknown
>>>> reason.
>>>>
>>>> Who? The Mono guys? (I'm just wondering, not claiming anything.)
>>>
>>> He's talking about another of Gnome's Windows-esque concepts, the GConf
>>> Registry, whose schemas are not entirely unlike its Windows namesake.
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-cleanup-your-gnome-registry.html
>>
>> Meet GConf Cleaner
>>
>> The tool is still in early stages of development (version 0.0.2), but
>> I've successfully run it on my desktop and was amazed how many old
>> entries it found. Typically, if you install some GNOME application, play
>> with it a little bit and later decide to delete it, it's configuration
>> settings will remain in the GConf database. So your registry will only
>> grow in time.
>>
>> Ye bloody gods!
>
> Erk! Microsoft for Linux.
Yeeeuuk!
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