On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:33, Felix Miata wrote: > Not me. > > > Most of the people who are using Mandrake (and _not_ most of us) use > > Konqueror or Nautilus for their file browsing. Those are the ones that > > (I guess) need to be accomodated. > > Without FC/2 to take the place of Norton Commander, I would never have > made the transition from DOS to OS/2. Without MC to emulate the place of > NC or FC/2, I'll never make any progress with Linux. MC is ALWAYS how I > begin fixing up Mandrake installation errors, navigating around to edit > conf files inappropriately created by the installer, preventing X from > working, HPFS and network from being accessible, not that I would use X > for anything but Mozilla if I couldn't use MC in an XTerm. No orthodox > file manager means I look elsewhere for an OS. > http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/
I've got a friend that is also religious about MC. I don't think that it's a good idea to eliminate it, either. There are many hooks to get people into Linux; this is another one. Eliminate the hook, eliminate the people. > "There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, > people will believe it." William James > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > > Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ --LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
