Steven wrote:
>> Yes, of course everyone wants a www-server in
>> their palmtop, I never thought of that ;-)
>
>We were talking about palmtops AND embedded devices.
Hmm... apparently you were.
>> Otherwise we can say that all Windows programs are for
>> DOS,
>
>No, this doesn't follow. X is not an operating system.
Neither is Windows :)
Windows adds a common way to access the hardware (for instance the graphics
card) and other basic services (mouse and keyboard handling and OLE
(cut'n'paste) for instance). Isn't X giving the same things? (except the
OLE part that is), or am I mixing X with the window manager?
>It's just a method of displaying hi-res graphics. When
>you run Netscape, it runs under Linux. You don't actually
>need X on that computer to run Netscape. I sometimes run
>Netscape on a non-X computer and pipe the display (via
>TCP/IP) to another computer (which uses X to display it).
True, but you will still need X to actually see the program. I can't see
<g> much point in using a (graphical) program without being able to see
it's output since you will need to send it commands on what to do through a
graphical user-interface (otherwise the program isn't graphical now is it).
Scripting is of course another thing.
BTW: Can you make a script that executes things in X? (including using the
mouse cursor)
>> Most users aren't interested in that (configuring)
>
>But the manufacturers (of palmtops and embedded devices)
>are very interested in a highly-configurable operating
>system. Linux is non-proprietary and open-source, so
>it gives developers total control over the code.
Well that's another story, I assumed you meant the users. It seems the
"Linux world" would be suprissed to find out that most people out there are
users not developers ;-)
I don't care much for what the developers use, just as long as it works.
I have a clipped out comic where a man is just about to hit his cell-phone
in anger. A text pointing to the phone says: "Dead for the fifth time since
lunch" and the text bellow reads: "Microsoft and Ericsson in new cooperation"
>This is easily configured, but it depends on whether you
>have a PC keyboard, a mac keyboard, a terminal keyboard,
>or something else. Linux runs on many different kinds
>of hardware, and sometimes the keybindings need a bit of
>tweaking.
But in almost all cases the keyboard is a standard PC keyboard (besides
they know which it is when they make the distro). I still can't see why
having BackSpace and Del do the same things in the *default* setting
instead of the opposite. Well this isn't that common these days, AFAIK
there's only emacs left to fix.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
