On Sunday 09 December 2001 4:46 pm, Tim McKenzie wrote: > The ultimate goal is having things included so that the user doesn't have > to go get them whenever possible. Working out a deal with the companies > that provide the software for free shouldn't be overly hard and it would > greatly help the distribution and increase sales for the software provider > as well. ... > The way I read this is that the older terminal programs are hard to read > and could use some work on their appearances. No where does he mention the > usability so there is no point in attacking his statement. I may be > mistaken but that it how I read it. I always keep a term open for quick > configuration, etc but there are a few that I hate working with because > either the fonts are hard to read or I cannot adjust the appearance as well > as I would hope. Calling someone pathetic is hardly productive to the > developement of the distribution. > > -Tim
Thanks, you got me right. I have two sons that are working in Unix land, mostly Solaris as I know it, and they are using XP for their documents and Visio and such. They are slowly noticing that Linux is faster on many jobs, like compiling. But they never dwell into the new state of Linux as they always meet the same old way of presenting Linux as a state of the art box. Their editor by trade is vi, and they have very limited knowledge of the GUI in Unix. I think this is coming, but slowly. One might look at this trend as a 'sociologically defined norm' of how things should be done: one browser <=> filselector and one editor, &c ... Where all these standard tools are just that = a standard. regards guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.6mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:08:18:54
