In a message dated: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:18:53 EDT
Brian Chabot said:
>90% of what you said is true. The pathetic OS is only half-pathetic,
>IMO. The HW support and multimedia capabilities aren't that bad, or at
>least wouldn't be if they were stable. Those are the only reasons I
>still run windoze... the USB support in Linux is incomplete, the video
>files I have are choppy at best, and DVD support is still minimal...
I never said Linux was perfect or didn't have things that needed improvement.
Nor did I say that there weren't specific things that MS does better than
Linux (at the moment).
>I think fixing that would be more importand than porting yet another
>office suite to Linux.
(I'm saying this generically to the entire list, not just you :)
If you think Linux needs more work in a specific area, what are you doing
about? Are you just sitting around bitching about it until someone else gets
the job done? Or are you joining Open Source development groups trying to
help out where you can? You don't need to be a programmer to help out.
Documentation needs writing, web sites need hosting, web pages need updating,
etc. There's a lot you can do, you just need to be willing to do more than
complain that it's not good enough.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
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