Let the flame war begin ;-)
Steven wrote:
>Rock-solid platform for TCP/IP, with a full range
>of clients/servers available.
Yes, of course everyone wants a www-server in their palmtop, I never
thought of that ;-)
And graphical www-clients for Linux (non-X) are easily counted, so IMHO
there aren't that many clients for Linux. Otherwise we can say that all
Windows programs are for DOS, and we don't want to do that now would we...
>Sophisticated,
>highly-configurable multi-tasking.
Most users aren't interested in that (configuring) - just as they didn't
want to change autoexec.bat and config.sys most users do not want to change
the systems settings. Make it easier and a few more might try it (since
they atleast easily find it <g>) but the majority don't care. If a user
says he has configured Windows he/she has changed background, moved the
programs around in the Start Menu and changed to another Screen saver (or
just changed the text). I do not understand why the average user would
suddenly be interested in changing things just because the OS is Linux. I
agree more things (than in any other OS) can be changed - but if the user
isn't interested in changing whats the point?
Much like a trimmed engine in a car works better so does a computer of
course - but how many spend that much time on their cars? I would say that
the waste majority of users only get in and drive and this is what they
want to do with their computers as well. If programmers can't give them
that users will sooner or latter loose interest, nice gizmos and other
things will sooner ot latter (preferly the former one IMHO) loose their
attraction.
>25 years of
>Unix utilities and applications, debugged and open
>source. ...etc ...etc
But untested on that hardware (palmtops) and with those users (the majority
- not the people that are interested in the computer/OS for it's own sake)
so it isn't tested that much - so it's quite frankly tested very little.
Wasn't one of the most frequent questions regarding Linux how to get
BackSpace to perform a BackSpace (in the CLI) not that long ago?
>> I just don't get it yet. <G>
>
>Don't worry. You will.
"be assimilated"? Nah, I don't think I will, but I can't speak for Clarence
of course ;-)
