If this isn't %100 coherent, it's cause I spent all night
coding, drank way too much Jolt and scotch and just got out
of bed @ 13:30 (hence missing school). But I makes sense to
me :-)
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> interested if their desktop must be rebooted from 2 on 2 days or should run
> 1 year without reboot ( in fact this is important for a server but who
> cares about for a desktop ? ).
Tell that to the US DOD or the NZ Police (hehehe got sucked in by
Windows NT).
> They look at pictures, they look at "nice features" as a 3d screensaver or
> to posibility to add a trail to the mouse. They are very impressed if when
> text editor start, arise a "small stuppid man" who tell him a lot of
> unusable things, or ...........
Then they should go by a Mac. But seriously what is wrong with that.
There is no way I'd encourage my parents to install a *nix based OS
when MacOS would fill their needs. Linux began with hackers, it was
developed by hackers for hackers, and it's still being developed by
hackers. Why should it at this point in time join the point and click
cliche ?
To get Linux to the point where it is has anything like the percieved
user-friendliness of the standard Apple Mac is going to require some
serious standardization. And without commerical input that will be
much harder to do. That isn't to say Linux standardization should be
commericalisied, that is silly, but it needs to cater for hackers and
captialists like. (Is there a unofficial/but sensible standards mailing
list?)
> So my opinion is: Decoration must be part from a desktop OS becouse in
> other side "the other OS that needs dicky features" will eliminate the good
> OSs. And we will be forced to use those to , and only those !!
I'm sorry but I don't like this this us vs them point of view. Linux
suits my purpose and I enjoy it, that is all I need from it.
I also think it is safe to say that the revival of Apple makes
MacOS a safe alternative to MS. I'm pointing friends and family
new to computers in that direction. If the are mainly interested
in games I recommend a Playstation or N64.
What is wrong with other systems better suited for a particular niche ?
I'd rather see Linux make a massive impact on the server/distributed/
developement/behind the scenes side of things first. That is where is
strongest in the commerical sector at the moment by the look of things.
The lack of pretty features sure isn't stopping major players in the
database industry from porting software to Linux.
If Linux community started using the Microsoft approach, that is try to
be all things at the same time and do only get them going in a half
arse manner, then it's going to be self defeating. Because Linux is
such a dynamic OS with different people developing a number different
things at this stage it isn't suitable for the average user that just
wants to use a computer without knowing anything about the OS.
