I won't be migrating anywhere soon. The only way I feel SAFE in using an untrustworthy dangerous OS from M$ -- 98SE, w2k -- is the sure knowledge that using Arachne to get my mail protects me better than even the best virus protectors out there. You see, Arachne won't run an attachment ... regardless of what that attachment is; the best virus protection around can't protect you from something new, so running dozerwarez means you have a better than 50% chance of getting clobbered, IMNSHO
I'm glad the discussion has gone to Linux, even though I don't have the time or spare brain cells to follow it right now. I know DOS, I'm more than semi-competent in DOS, some of the techs at my ISP still find it unbelieveable that I am running a pure DOS program to connect via cable modem. BUT ... due to the stolen nature of the beast, and due to Billy Grate$' minimal skill sets, DOS is limited. So I know that Linux, whichever builds & kernels the majority of people want to pick & choose from, is where the future more likely lies. Technology is limited and current technology has just about reached the maximum boundaries ... you can't program a CPU or other chip at the atomic level -- molecular is the limit. So if improvement of speed and functionality is going to be possible from this point onward, it will have to be in the underlying OS and the "cleanness" of executables. M$ isn't capable. Soon only another OS will be a viable option. Any maybe by then Michael will have gotten a decent support platform under him, a group of products which pay the rent and put food on the table, so he can devote a bit more of his time to producing Arachne for Linux ... and although the concept of "flower pot" is a wonderful thing to we with techie type minds & dreams, that pot will be put back on the shelf and a cogent plan of operations put into effect. ==== On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:32:00 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time), howard schwartz wrote: > I have noticed a decrease in posts to arachne, survpc, and other > ``older'' software/hardware listservrs. > I wonder if this is a symptom of surrender to the everchanging > software/hardware times? For instance, given the lack of a new > version of arachne for some time, the increase of java, javascript, > style sheets, new html markup, picture richness -- whatever on the > more and more gaudy current webpages -- arachne people have > ``faced the music'' that arachne will not be able to render > more and more of these sad, trendy sites? > Therefore, more and more of us are tackling linux, using whatever > version of winblows 9x or whatever we can stand -- to access > web pages? > When one thinks of the current landscape where harddisk sizes > of 100 GIGS (!), processors of 1G, hugely bloated and innefecient > programming stlyes and applications of common -- humble shunned > DOS is looking more and more remarkable: An entire OS capable > of running most devices and software apps. -- that is small enough > to still fit on a single floppy disk! -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
