makes you wonder tho.. since "dos is gone" why not release the source freely? hmmm, maybe some secrets in the closet? better to burn down the neighborhood than to have the skeleton found? On Saturday 08 September 2001 13:09, you had thoughts to the concept of: > On Saturday 08 September 2001 00:43, you wrote: > > The constantly changing APIs/libraries. > > > > Moving from mdk7.2 to 8.0 required a complete reinstall to make > > sure no "ghosts from the past" remain to cause problems. This > > is because massive amounts of upgraded libraries were introduced, > > and many directories were moved. As we have seen so many threads > > here on this list, upgrading a mdk7.2 system in these 8.0 days > > requires compiling SRPMs, and many times, they won't work because > > of the aforementioned upgraded libraries and moved directories. > > > > Just recently, I upgraded from KDE 2.1.1 to 2.2. *Definitely* > > not something that non-geeks would ever contemplate or be able > > to do. Noone could contemplate it on a dial-up line. > > > > Take for example my wife. She's been using the same Win98 box > > with Office97 for 3 years. The only upgrade has been to IE5.5. > > She *likes* it that way. Could she be a happy, unchanging linux > > desktop user for 3 years from 1998? Don't think so. > > > > Could she be a happy linux desktop user for the 3 years starting > > now? NO. "Soon", qt3 will be released. Then KDE3 will be re- > > leased. Then will RPMs (or even SRPMs) created for KDE3 run on > > her 2.2. Of course not, since mdk can't create *RPMs of new > > programs for old releases, even the last one, since the new programs > > use so many new features. > > > > Only when you can install a new RPM on a 3yo kernel/desktop will > > linux be ready for the mass market desktop. > > > > Comments? > > Windows XP is intended to "Replace" Win9x Family, soon all win9x > applications will be a ghost from the past. "DOS" its gone... no more > support, its a fact of life. Things change so quickly that is really hard > to keep up with all of them. > > And Linux will soon replace many desktops... that also is a fact! ;-) > > sk ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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