And don't forget: Rome had the shiny, impressive army that took over the known western world. But the Vigoths just KEPT coming, over and over and over.....
And it is hard to make people stop using free software. The price is hard to beat.
Wow, now YOU look stupid. Linus started Linux because he thought that Minix was kindof limited...
http://www.twics.com/~tlug/linus.html
..the operating system I had been trying to use before Linux: "Minix". Minix was meant to be a teaching operating system, but it had been to limited and in my opinion too expensive for that. It was also hard to get hold of.
So when I made Linux, I wanted it to be easily available over ftp with full sources, and I did _not_ want it to be too expensive for anybody.
I've spent a horrific 3 days instaling Win98 on my system. Install Win98, install patches, install new stuff, fire up directx, BANG! fall down dead. Format drive, start over. (It's a hardware/driver problem, but Linux and X run JUST fine!)
The big problem is that people don't install operating systems very often. OS installation can be one of the most painful experiences in computerdom. (With the exception of MacOS 7.x, 8.x, is is actually pretty easy)
Also, I hope that RedHat replaces FVWM95 with something else for 6.0. "Start button"? Sheesh.
I'd rather see more people working on GNOME. I've been running 2.0 for a week, and it is really nice. Granted, gmc (Gnome Midnight Commander) still segfaults on me (the only thing that I liked about KDE was the filemanager), and there are lots of places to polish, but the underlying structure of the GTK/GLIB widgets and CORBA support will really make it a consistant, very integrated setup. KDE is putting in CORBA support, but they are just starting.
When they get a higher lever API for the CORBA in place for embedding and creating appservers, and get everything documented for developers, it's really going to be something.
Although I don't agree with all of RMS's political agenda's, you do have to respect the man for sticking to his guns and principals.
GNU/Linux? Well, Red Hat, Debian, SUSE, etc.. are definately a large percentage, so I would agree that they should probably be called GNU/Linux Distributions (tm).
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And don't forget: Rome had the shiny, impressive army that took over the known western world. But the Vigoths just KEPT coming, over and over and over.....
And it is hard to make people stop using free software. The price is hard to beat.
Wow, now YOU look stupid. Linus started Linux because he thought that Minix was kindof limited...
http://www.twics.com/~tlug/linus.html
..the operating system I had been trying to use before Linux: "Minix". Minix was meant to be a teaching operating system, but it had been to limited and in my opinion too expensive for that. It was also hard to get hold of.
So when I made Linux, I wanted it to be easily available over ftp with full sources, and I did _not_ want it to be too expensive for anybody.
I've spent a horrific 3 days instaling Win98 on my system. Install Win98, install patches, install new stuff, fire up directx, BANG! fall down dead. Format drive, start over. (It's a hardware/driver problem, but Linux and X run JUST fine!)
The big problem is that people don't install operating systems very often. OS installation can be one of the most painful experiences in computerdom. (With the exception of MacOS 7.x, 8.x, is is actually pretty easy)
Also, I hope that RedHat replaces FVWM95 with something else for 6.0. "Start button"? Sheesh.
I'd rather see more people working on GNOME. I've been running 2.0 for a week, and it is really nice. Granted, gmc (Gnome Midnight Commander) still segfaults on me (the only thing that I liked about KDE was the filemanager), and there are lots of places to polish, but the underlying structure of the GTK/GLIB widgets and CORBA support will really make it a consistant, very integrated setup. KDE is putting in CORBA support, but they are just starting.
When they get a higher lever API for the CORBA in place for embedding and creating appservers, and get everything documented for developers, it's really going to be something.
BTW, Speling is optional....
jf
Although I don't agree with all of RMS's political agenda's, you do have to respect the man for sticking to his guns and principals.
GNU/Linux? Well, Red Hat, Debian, SUSE, etc.. are definately a large percentage, so I would agree that they should probably be called GNU/Linux Distributions (tm).
The kernel is Linux. Period.