Dne Sat, 6 May 2000 11:36:38 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
napsal:
> "clee2" wrote:
>> GET THIS STRAIGHT RIGHT NOW. LINUX/UNIX IS NOT DOS. PROGRAMS THAT RUN
>> UNDER LINUX/UNIX ARE NOT CONFIGURED LIKE DOS PROGRAMS FOR VERY
>> IMPORTANT REASONS.
> Ah yes, they aren't supposed to be user-friendly :(
> Instead it's safe and "uncrashable" - ha! I crash Linux on a dialy basis
> here and all I'm trying to do is to get it to see my NIC. (Not as easy as
> running a .com file that automatically works now is it!)
Yes, I manage to crash Linux on many occasions - well, not exactly
crash, but if it stops responding to keybord due to X-server or SVGAlib
crash, and I don't have any other computer attached to telnet or
secure-shell inside and kill or restart system, the results are
identical to real system kernel crash...
I think Linux is just very begining of line of future open-souce
systems, which will offer source code portability and share
applications - but which may introduce more advace concepts than Unix
systems.
For example, I belive, that operating systems have to be VERY user
friendly, more user friendly than Windows. Otherwise, people will use
Windows and software manufacturers will develop software only for
Windows.
Additional application can make Linux more user friendly in near future,
but there are still some concepts which were inherited from Unix, and
which make Linux not only less user-friendly, but even less
programer-friendly.
Eg. translation of ANSI-encoded keystrokes from Linux console is very
hard, as well as switching console to mode in which standard input is
not line-bufered. I think it is stupid that kernel translates keystrokes
to escape-sequencies, and I must write another function to translate
them back to integers (as returned by bioskey() function in Borland C
for DOS).... Application programming has to be made lot easier and
efficient, before more programmers will move from DOS to Linux....
:-(
> So is using SVGAlib as well (according to some people), not to mention
> (earlier anyway) sendmail...
Arachne will setuid from uid=0 to regular user's uid just after
initializing fullscreen graphics. It will be secure..
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