On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:04:51 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Clarence Verge wrote:

>> I'll try adding Arachne to Baslinux tonite if I get a
>> chance, and report back.

> Stop!  It won't work!  The Linux version of Arachne was
> compiled for glibc2 (not libc5).  Arachne cannot be run
> in BasicLinux until a libc5 version is released.

> Sorry to get you excited about nothing.

Bummer.
I'm beginning to get the feel for another reason why Linux isn't
mature enough (read static enough) for prime-time.

With DOS I can take a program written in 1980 and use it now on the
latest DOS. I can also take the latest DOS application and run it on
DOS 3.3.

With Windoze and Linux neither of the above will work due to an
entirely different philosophy. Sell them something new tomorrow 
AND make damn sure they have to buy something ELSE to run it !

Static isn't bad. Old isn't bad either, but I can see that after a
LONG run, a change may be an improvement. As long as it is a change
to a mature product without designed in obsolescence.

DOS is dead.  Windows is only imitating life.
Linux (Unix) has been around along time, but it has cancer.

IMO, the final answer lies elsewhere.

- Clarence Verge
- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....

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