Swapan Sarkar rearranged electrons thusly:
> The foolowing two statements (I believe)
> --- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Linux has never been a "for dummies" OS - nor has
> > any other unix. It was, is
> and
> > * Lots of agricultural etc records are stored on
> > linux / other unix machines,
> > and made available at public access terminals around
They do sound contradictory, dont they?
> are contradictory. Simputer is simple and can be used
> by dummies and is based on Linux. And why can't it be
Using something based on linux (but with a cute interface) is not the same as
using linux. I dont know about how the simputer works, but those "data query"
terminals like you see in railway stations / panchayat offices / libraries etc
are *nix / linux boxes, but single purpose. There's a menu, certain well
defined keystrokes, that's all.
Big difference between using a single purpose tool which happens to run on a
linux backend, and using linux itself. Extending that argument, you could
argue that you are using linux every time you point your browser (say MS IE
5.x) at a website hosted on a linux box :)
-s
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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