Am Montag 26 März 2001 15:43 schrieben Sie:
> <cynic mode>
> There are many possible motives for creating a new editor, programming
> language, or program to replace an existing program.
>
> These include:
> -a need to correct mistakes or problems in a previous program (hopefully
> large mistakes, that require a different paradigm to address)
> -the joy of creation
> -academic recognition (in the case of academics)
> -business competition
> -???
>
> The first reason strikes me as the most valid. Too many programs are
> created for the other reasons.
>
> Unfortunately, this creates a Tower of Babel for computer users.
> </cynic mode>
>
> Knowing this doesn't help,
> Randy Kramer
>
I think it becomes a principal problem of linux that we have a lot of little
stable programs which is a bit confusing for beginners, on the other hand the
bigger programs are often unstable and almost ever very slow in comparison
with the windows equivalents: even kword needs more time to start than
winword though it has less functions.
I like the little linux tools like pico but I think as long as we have no
stable and easy to use apps like winword linux will not succeed on the
desktop. The situation got even worse because the IE dominates the net nearly
absolutely. Here we have again a lot of little browsers like lynx but we are
missing a usable all round program: Netscape 4.7x is too old, Netscape 6 is a
catastrophe, konqueror is still relatively unstable. They all including
mozilla and galeon are much slower than IE. And there are more an more sites
which you can't see in a reasonable way with any linux browser.
What I wanted to say is: It would make more sense to improve the stability
and abilities of the big apps than to invent the 30th text editor.
Though I'm sometimes a bit frustrated I don't give up on linux!
Uli
