Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 12-Jan-08, at 7:34 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >>> you mean other operating systems were not developed by programmers? >>> Or that the current developers of Linux are not programmers? >> Other operating systems are not designed by programmrs, no. For the >> mainstream player definitions of 'Other'. Most of them are designed >> by a >> committee against what they interpret to be saleable or marketable >> features. > > are you sure? I know hurd was designed by committee - but what of > various flavours of unix and bsd? I was always under the impression
I am unaware of any other flavour of Unix or BSD that supports as much hardware as Linux does, nor one that has as much market penetration to figure in the mainstream "OS's" - So I am not sure what your point here is.[1] > that they sort of grew - and were grown by programmers. And I dont > think even dos was designed by a committee. btw, talking of ease of > use and icons etc, I remember redhat 5.x had a much better desktop > and was much easier to use than the current kde and gnome desktops - > and nothing wrong with the icons either. Redhat 5 ? as in from the late 90's ? Surely that your personal opinion rather than verifiable fact. - KB [1] - Hurd ? is that even anywhere near usable anywhere in the real world ??? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
