On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:48 pm, you wrote: > > > > > > If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If you > > > can't proofread, how good are you at testing your software > > > (corporately > speaking, obviously individual people may be > > > better at one or the other). > > > > > > I am admittedly too much the perfectionist, so the world seems too full > > > of mediocrity to me. > > > > Yes, you are. I didn't find any typos in Mandrake or Caldera distros > > that failed to install on my PC or in Redhat distros that had a flaky > > compiler/glibc environment for everyone's PC, but I'm too picky to use > > them any more. > > > > Fortunately for some of us who are less picky, elx does work rather well. > > It's also a -pre1 release, so the 1.0 release may be even better. > > > > You're probably better off with Debian, where a package isn't good enough > > to be accepted into stable unless it's been running on every PC > > architecture (including those that none of us ever plan to use) for a > > long time. By then, the spelling has also improved most likely. By > > then, elx may have corrected a few piddling typos come to think of it, > > and if their responses on the elx forum are any indication, they will > > have corrected a few more worthwhile things than bledding typos. > > > > I repeat: BFD! > > I am in agreement with Dave. Typo's are unacceptable. It truely shows how > much 'true' effort was put into the thing. I see more and more companies > putting things out with typo's in them, it's pathetic. If your bank issued > your checks with a typo, would it be acceptable? If your employer made a > typo on your name on your paycheck, would it be acceptable? If you put up > the URL to your web site with a typo, would it be acceptable? I think not. > I may be picky too, but I feel that if a company can't take the time to > check spelling then it's not worth my time to use it. > Could it be that some of the problems that I have read about with elx could > be typo problems in the code? Hmmm,. BFD? Hmmmm. > _______________________________________________ Typo's or no typo's, my greatest bitch with elx is that I had to go change permissions on quite a few items in order to use them as a user. This is not the first distro I've tried (nor probably the last) Most machines at this site run Caldera other than this one (my lab rat). I've not had to go through so many changes on the other machines as I had to on this one. I'm constantly looking for distro's that can be installed and "used" by wintendo converts and at first thought that elx would fill this requirement. But for now, I'll continue playing with it and see what the 1.0 release is like and hopefully they'll see that running primarily as root is really not an option. Can you imagine a wintendo convert running linux as root? Good grief, I shudder just thinking about it. JMHO and this to me is a BFD!
-- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
