Couldnt agree more. There's lots of lighthearted talk of world domination,
but linux people tend to live in a geekish world of people who understand
these things. I still use my friendly mac as a general workstation,
because it is totally transparant to all these issues and I can spend all
my time getting work done. I bought a G4 last week, and it was on the
network and working in about 5 minutes, not counting unpacking.
Horses for courses. A server it ain't. But I spend hours trying to figure
out why *nix does things the way it does, and frankly ma'am, I don't give
a damn. It's just frustrating. Maybe there should be distro's for people
with no legacy issues.
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Disclaimer: Please don't flame the newbie.
>
> With recent discussions about termcaps, etc. I started thinking about the
> relative obscurity of all these configuration details...
>
> Why do they still exist? How *practically* useful are they anymore?
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