At first, the *X systems were used by expert and entusiast of the computers, but at the moment that the system was accesible for all kind of people, this chaged.
This people have no time to learn C, assembly, *read* the "fine" man pages. The computer must be accesible for everybody, but at what cost?. I have seen this change with my own eyes. So, at this moment I use the Slackware, because it has been a good GNU/Linux distro with UNIX flavour for years.
In order to finish, I think that must be distros for everyone. Some of them for newbies like Mandrake, and some for who loves UNIX like Slackware. So the diversity must be defended.
Would be fantastic that everybody used free software in a future, but this software should be *good quality* software:-) .
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One day, I'll be using a BSD system, but now I choose Slackware.
To the people who work on *X systems know that the text is the power of the user. If you want to do something, you will probably do with your current apps with pipes and complex combinations. You don't need a new application for that.
That's one of the problems that windows has, they reinvent all the time the fire.
Further more, the text apps are faster and more stable. The text apps have more options and can do more complex operations. This graphical interfaces are only a simplistic way of see the computers.
I think that could be useful to make frontends for complex apps, but always must exists the main app in text.
The author should think in the posibility of publish their works under free licenses like creative commons.
The use of this kind licenses on these publications could make easier to know the new works of unknown authors, so this would make a more dinamic market.
This is a new place to bring the filosophy of the free software. So why not?
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At first, the *X systems were used by expert and entusiast of the computers, but at the moment that the system was accesible for all kind of people, this chaged.
:-) .
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One day, I'll be using a BSD system, but now I choose Slackware.
This people have no time to learn C, assembly, *read* the "fine" man pages. The computer must be accesible for everybody, but at what cost?. I have seen this change with my own eyes. So, at this moment I use the Slackware, because it has been a good GNU/Linux distro with UNIX flavour for years.
In order to finish, I think that must be distros for everyone. Some of them for newbies like Mandrake, and some for who loves UNIX like Slackware. So the diversity must be defended. Would be fantastic that everybody used free software in a future, but this software should be *good quality* software
To the people who work on *X systems know that the text is the power of the user. If you want to do something, you will probably do with your current apps with pipes and complex combinations. You don't need a new application for that.
That's one of the problems that windows has, they reinvent all the time the fire.
Further more, the text apps are faster and more stable. The text apps have more options and can do more complex operations. This graphical interfaces are only a simplistic way of see the computers.
I think that could be useful to make frontends for complex apps, but always must exists the main app in text.
The author should think in the posibility of publish their works under free licenses like creative commons. The use of this kind licenses on these publications could make easier to know the new works of unknown authors, so this would make a more dinamic market. This is a new place to bring the filosophy of the free software. So why not?