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<RANT>although you might want to choose one that doesn't take an age
loading while it mallocs every free byte it can get its grubby little mits on,
then gobbles up half your swap space, decreasing your harddisk's mean time to
failure by an order of magnitude and not content with that it grabs just about
every colour possible so if you haven't got a true colour graphics card every
other application looks weird with the accompanying sheer joy and usefulness of
black on black xterms or you have to suffer stomach churning pallette
changes everytime it moves out of focus, in order to give you the ability to
use things you never wanted to use and couldn't make use of anyway because
you're on a slow modem link, and then crashes after the slightest taste of
java leaving you to go through the whole sorry process again, and if the thing
actually stays running for any amount of time, it starts forcing every other
process to be swapped out because it's got so many memory leaks it makes the
NT kernel look well written and efficient; and when you download the source
tree to try and work out what the thing spends all these resources actually
doing you discover that the source takes longer to untar than your
kernel takes to recompile and you could grow, harvest, make and drink your own
coffee in the time it takes to compile and of course there is absolutely no
chance it's ever going to manage to link at the end of it anyway.</RANT>
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