Most revered sir.
That does not imply cluelessness, it's a highly inflammatory statement.
X window is not a GUI. Besides, what's a paradigm for a GUI? I find the
Windows GUI horribly illogical and user-hostile.
KDE and GNOME are well documented, unlike their Windows counterpart, which aims
at obscuring very important details. Microsoft has simply convinced the general
public that it has created a "user-friendly" OS. He does not deserve to be
flamed, we should simply make him aware of his error via conventional means.
Regards,
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:50:22AM +0200, Alon Barzilai wrote:
> not clueless?
> look what he wrote me this morning:
>
> "I did not write that Linux started in 1997. As for GUI, it still
> doesn't
> have one in the conservative sense. The GUIs offered are more like
> elaborated skins than real GUIs."
>
> X windows is elaborated skins?
>
> Alon
>
>
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Uri Bruck wrote:
> >
> > ?
> > ? I know that date is wrong, but one of the Captain Internet writers seems
> > ? to think that "when linux first showed up in 1997 it had no GUI".....
> > ? Seems to have strange ideas on when linux showed up.
> > ?
> > ? Anyone wants to set him straight one that?
> >
> > The author (Ori Redler) is not as clueless as the article suggests. He
> > knows linux pretty well. From what he wrote to me, that article was
> > severly edited. The original wording was something like "in 1997 linux had
> > no decent GUI", which is quite correct.
> >
> > This applies to various other incorrect facts in the article, thus there
> > is really no need to "set him straight"
> >
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