On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:50, yuri wrote: > Bah. Linux is not ready for the desktop because the general purpose > computer is not ready for the desktop. The only device ready for the > desktop is the set top box (which may or may not be based on embedded > linux).
I concluded during the nineties that the general purpose computer was somewhat clumsily designed, and should instead be split up into function domains, with each function domain being assigned one primary function and being made to do it well; with the bus being replaced by a network. Preferably something like as the Fibre Channel, with its several supported protocols - HIPPI, SCSI, TCP/IP, etc. That way, much of the configuration kaffuffle would cease to exist, since nodes on a network don't need to configure other nodes in order to communicate with them. Just an idea. Wesley Parish > > Perhaps I should say: The general purpose computer is not ready for > the unassisted novice. > This applies to Windows, Linux and to some extent, even the Mac. > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:15:42 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Wow, dictionaries and an encyclopedia now available for Linux too. > > That's not bad for a company which in the past has been brainwashed > > firmly in the billy-way. > > > > http://www.bifab.de/katalog/brockhaus.html -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
