In the three years that I am running exclusively Linux I already forgot, how difficult it is to install and administer DOS and Windows. Where is DOS CD-ROM HOWTO?
Anybody remembers, what one must put into the \CONFIG.SYS to enable ATAPI CD-ROM? In the \AUTOEXEC.BAT must be mscdex, I know. But that still does not make my CDROM (recognized by VMware on boot) work.
The problem is, that after the 3 years I no longer have install floppies for DOS or Windows 3.11.
Almost right on. Actualy, Bill's response did a good advertizing to the Linux. He is crediting it with being good at wordprocessing and spreadsheets. Quite often lack of certain specific wordprocessor from Redmont was the main point behind the notoric "lack of applications" claim. Now Bill himself mentions, that Linux will be good at it. All the other points are also valid. The Netscape crashes, Mozilla 5.0 is still not finished, other browsers are in dead end (who runs Arena, Amaya, Grail, Red Barron, etc...?
The conclusion might be however a little bit premature - who says, that the next browser for Linux has to be freeware?
Not tested? So what are doing Caldera, RedHat, SuSe... Well, for the money they are getting for it, they try the basics and let the users test it;-)
Wait a minute - multiple window managers and multiple X-window wendors are and advantage! Yes, but it is also a disadvantage, and that is rather true whe we look at the variety GUI APIs (Motif, Xview, Gnome, KDE, Tcl/Tk, GTK, XForms...).
Unfortunately, it is also true, that number of customers are going to stay with windows. What a pity, that he did not enumerated also Windows deficiecies, but those are his problem.
So lets start working on those fixes for Linux. For the beginning, can at least Gnome developers agree, what key shortcut will be used to quit any Gnome application?
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Attention, Windows newbie !
In the three years that I am running exclusively
Linux I already forgot, how difficult it is to
install and administer DOS and Windows. Where is
DOS CD-ROM HOWTO?
Anybody remembers, what one must put into the
\CONFIG.SYS to enable ATAPI CD-ROM? In the
\AUTOEXEC.BAT must be mscdex, I know. But that still does not make my CDROM (recognized by
VMware on boot) work.
The problem is, that after the 3 years I no
longer have install floppies for DOS or Windows 3.11.
Petrus
Almost right on. Actualy, Bill's response did a good advertizing to the Linux. He is crediting it with being good at wordprocessing and spreadsheets. Quite often lack of certain specific wordprocessor from Redmont was the main point behind the notoric "lack of applications" claim. Now Bill himself mentions, that Linux will be good at it. All the other points are also valid. The Netscape crashes, Mozilla 5.0 is still not finished, other browsers are in dead end (who runs Arena, Amaya, Grail, Red Barron, etc...?
;-)
The conclusion might be however a little bit premature - who says, that the next browser for Linux has to be freeware?
Not tested? So what are doing Caldera, RedHat, SuSe...
Well, for the money they are getting for it, they try the basics and let the users test it
Wait a minute - multiple window managers and
multiple X-window wendors are and advantage! Yes, but it is also a disadvantage, and that is rather true whe we look at the variety GUI APIs (Motif, Xview, Gnome, KDE, Tcl/Tk, GTK, XForms...).
Unfortunately, it is also true, that number of customers are going to stay with windows. What a pity, that he did not enumerated also Windows deficiecies, but those are his problem.
So lets start working on those fixes for Linux.
For the beginning, can at least Gnome developers agree, what key shortcut will be used to quit any Gnome application?
Petrus
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