On 12-Jan-08, at 7:34 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> you mean other operating systems were not developed by programmers? >> Or that the current developers of Linux are not programmers? > > Other operating systems are not designed by programmrs, no. For the > mainstream player definitions of 'Other'. Most of them are designed > by a > committee against what they interpret to be saleable or marketable > features.
are you sure? I know hurd was designed by committee - but what of various flavours of unix and bsd? I was always under the impression that they sort of grew - and were grown by programmers. And I dont think even dos was designed by a committee. btw, talking of ease of use and icons etc, I remember redhat 5.x had a much better desktop and was much easier to use than the current kde and gnome desktops - and nothing wrong with the icons either. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
