On 2/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stefan Glasenhardt</b> <<a href="mailto:glasen@web.de">glasen@web.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is a little bit off-topic,<br><br>but can anybody explain me why xscreensaver is installed by default?<br></blockquote></div><br>Well, from a perfectly practical point of view I guess you're right. But for a desktop distro, screensavers are a important feature. It's nice to watch. It's nice to show beautiful 3D fireworks to your clueless Windows-impaired friends :-) For *me*, it's something worth leaving the monitor turned on, and it's one of the things that Ubuntu (and most desktop-oriented Linux distros in general) have over Windows.
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