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der Mouse wrote: To be honest, I think Richard's comment about OSS is pretty fair in general - there's a *huge* amount of bloat in a lot of OSS. It's nowhere near as bad as the Windows world, but it's getting worse all the time. I'm tempted to say that things went bad 2 or 3 years ago when Linux started really being talked about in the media. Before then, people bought into the UNIX philosophy of small apps doing one job only (but doing it well) - then some kind of change happened and we got dragged down the Windows route of monolithic monsters which were all about features and integration rather than stability and performance. Prior to that, things were ticking along pretty nicely. Actually, I don't really mind features so much - but it's *my* system, so *I* should be the one who gets to choose which ones are installed - it doesn't matter so much if it's lots of separate programs or not, so long as it's 'tunable'. Maybe what's lacking is that there's no common standard for communication between 'modules' (whether they be applications, utilities, or 'features') such that users can pick and choose what they want (which sounds scarily like the distributed systems of old!) cheers Jules