On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:51:20 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Clarence Verge wrote: >> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:04:51 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > compiled for glibc2 (not libc5). Arachne cannot be run >> > in BasicLinux until a libc5 version is released. > He decided when porting Arachne to Linux, > that he'd go with the latest libraries. You can't > really fault him for that. Computer years, like dog > years, go by at a different rate than regular human > years. If he wrote Arachne to an already obsolete > library... well, then he'd have to be messing with one > more thing to upgrade a few months later. > I think keeping BasicLinux small is a good goal, but > when it's done by keeping it in a 5 year old time warp, > (that's 35 computer years, remember) then obviously, > there will be certain pieces of newer software that > just won't work. > Nobody in the 'nix world is making anybody BUY anything! > If you want to run Linux kernel 1.0.1, you're > perfectly free to do so. Just don't expect every > programmer in the world to make his programs backward > compatible to that kernel... That'd be ridiculous. > Linux is like a living language. It grows and > changes whenever and however the army of volunteer > programmers decide to take it. As an individual > user, you are free to "freeze" your static box at > any moment in time you want... or to ride the waves > of KDE and Gnome and all the other cutting edge > stuff that seems to get some people all excited. > Steven seems to have his computer frozen ca. 1997. > Mine is like a glacier, cyclically freezing and > thawing to crawl forward. The glacier moves 100 yards > one year, and then might move only a few inches the next. >> IMO, the final answer lies elsewhere. > You are the one who decides what hardware to purchase > (or carry home from the dump). You are the one who > decides which OS and what version to run. You are the > one who decides what software to buy/download. > And if all that still doesn't give you enough room > for being where you want to be, then you can always > put together your own distribution... and if you > STILL aren't happy with your computational position > in cyberlife, it's time to start honing up those > programming skills. ;-) > - Steve Just a comment about the BasicLinux. For a computer newbie dummy like me, who is still trying to comprehend different file systems, commands, structure and all sorts of acronyms and jargon, and with extremely limited resources, like a free, ten year old [I guess that's seventy year old] computer, BasicLinux is perfect, no matter what the kernel, libc glibc thing is. At least for now, while trying to work a job and go to school I have something to work and learn with. Once I have learned enough and have enough resources, then maybe I can move on to the KDE, GNOME latest and greatest thing. But for now I'm darn glad something like it is available! Spouting off; Rob: -- Life is short, live now, live fast! -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
