At 08:01 PM Saturday 9/9/2006, maru dubshinki wrote:
On 9/6/06, Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JohnR said:
> What we really need is an OS with all of the advantages of XP and
> Ubuntu and none of the disadvantages of either. Then maybe we
> would have a decent operating system.
That's called "OS X". Oh, except for the fact that OS X is much easier
to use (and prettier!) than XP.
And traditional Unix doesn't actually make a whole heap of sense. Why
are there dozens of different configuration file formats? Why does no
other Unix have things like launchd and lookupd but rather a rats nest
of systems for starting processes and looking up directory data?
Rich
Tradition!
Why, without tradition, we'd be like... like.... a fiddler on a roof!
That's the third list this week on which that reference has been made
(two of them this weekend) . ..
-- Ronn! :)
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