Jumping in late here, I was on holidays...
I'm afraid I need to disagree with this. I picked up linux mostly because
I wanted to have some understanding of unix, but it does have potential to
be a desktop os. Think about the ease of use complaints, the original
poster complained about not
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
Ok, what about
$ cat dir
echo I think you meant ls... (see: 'man ls')
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
I have
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
[...]
* Each machine will eventually be a web server as this is how individuals
will collaborate their work as well as access their own information
from remote locations. Already Linux is like this. MacOS now ships with
"Personal Web Sharing." Windows will
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
the case, prompts are and always have been a very personal thing.
I think it's the first thing in a long time that we agreed on :)
But that's good for newbies. In a multi-user environment such as an
ISP, adding "-i" to everything is *very*
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
[...]
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
Why should they have to? If the aliases allow
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
Why should they have to? If the aliases allow the users to get their
work done easily
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
[...]
...but don't you think a pre-existing alias in a particular distribution
would cause confusion? If somebody started new and typed in md and
it worked they would not even wonder if it was a Linux native command.
So they get a job or something where
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
who will? Are we to hope that UNIX will have the same, cryptic interface
in 10 years that it has today, or should we hope that it will improve?
No, we should hope that it will improve. But
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote:
[...]
Linux is NOT in competition with anything MS produces.
Huh? Since when? What, then, *is* Linux competing with? What niche
market does Linux serve without competition?
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
Don't get stuck in an "us versus them" mentality. Just because Microsoft
does something doesn't mean Microsoft's doing it wrong. If people
I'm not. I don't have any religious dislike for Microsoft. I like their
context sensitive help, for
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. I personaly don't like Windoze, but there are thing
Linux can learn from MS: mainly, some easy to use interfaces that can
help those who just bought Linux to configure their machines and learn
the basics, so they would be able to go
I agree. I personaly don't like Windoze, but there are thing
Linux can learn from MS: mainly, some easy to use interfaces that can
help those who just bought Linux to configure their machines and learn
the basics, so they would be able to go deeper after that..
The basic
I'm afraid I need to disagree with this. I picked up linux mostly because
I wanted to have some understanding of unix, but it does have potential to
be a desktop os. Think about the ease of use complaints, the original
poster complained about not knowing how to even change directories. Would
I'm using RH 5.0 on my desktop, and planning to upgrade my users to it :
- RH 5.0
- StarOffice 4.0, when StarDiv issue a french version
- Netscape Communicator 4
- Java intranet applications we're developping
- MySQL
...
We just need to choose
I'm afraid I need to disagree with this. I picked up linux mostly because
I wanted to have some understanding of unix, but it does have potential to
be a desktop os. Think about the ease of use complaints, the original
poster complained about not knowing how to even change directories.
Joe Klemmer wrote:
The basic problem with all this is that Linux is NOT a desktop OS
like Win3/95 or OS/2 or the Mac. It's a high end server OS.
It's not even in the same category as Win95.
^^^
And
Claire Bradford wrote:
Unix is an opertaing
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
I use aliases for a lot of that stuff, but still need to some things that
I
---Reply on mail from Greg Thomas about Not a Desktop OS
Also, I see more newbies, like myself, make their first post to the list
because they want to know how to get rid of FVWM95 because they don't want
something that emulates Win95 and they want to try something new.
Greg
I suggest
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
I have mixed feelings here. The first thing I
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
[...]
So they get a job or something where there are Linux machines and they
go and try md and it isn't there, they're gonna go crazy, right? Wrong?
But that's already going to be the case. Every
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Felix wrote:
Somehow, through documentation, installation procedures, powerful apps,
GUI's or what-have-you, Linux needs to step beyond the "High end server OS" and
"garage hobbyist" to appeal to the non-tinkerer types. Only then can it really
compete with Windows
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote:
[...]
Linux is NOT in competition with anything MS produces.
Huh? Since when? What, then, *is* Linux competing with? What niche
market does Linux serve without competition?
Many many scientists are rather fond of linux and much less so
of anything
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