On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> It would be better if you actually researched something before you went
> spouting off. You really have done an outstanding job at making yourself
> look completely incompetant.
We don't need personal attacks here either. Everyone is
_entitled_ to give their opinions, experience, etc... right or wrong
Gawd I know sometimes it's just a little brain fade on my part ;)
Chill out a little.
In the meantime, I hear cooker's fixin to be in an internal
code freeze in 'bout 2 weeks. KDE2 and XF-4 should be release
grade by then also. My guess, look for Mandrake 7.2 come late
September/early October. XF-4, KDE2, and the fixable problems fixed
with those some of y'all had with 7.1
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 1:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*
>
>
> > somebody said:
> > "Windows 3.0 thru 3.11 are not opperating systems. They are just shells,
> > running on top of dos. Windows 95 is an opperating system. It contains a
> > completly new filesystem(fat32 and fat16 with changes to support long
> > filenames) and a new io.sys. windows 98 is really windows 95 with a few
> > cosmetic changes."
> >
> > nooooooo.....
> > don't make me go balistic.
> > win95 is not an OS. win95 still ran on DOS, M$ just changed the name of
> many of the DOS files so no one would know it. this was on of the things
> some of the computer magazines pointed out when win95 came out (along with
> the fact that IE took an inventory of the software on your computer & sent
> that information to M$ when you logged on the internet). of course, M$
> denied this at first, but eventually admitted it was true. it may have a
> new file system, but it's not an OS - they just did a slightly better job of
> hiding DOS.
> >
> > i think there were actually more changes made in win98, under the hood.
> one case in point. PKZIP, the command line version, will run fine in a DOS
> box under win95, under win98 however it will just crash. PKWare had to come
> up with a new program to run PKZIP from a command line in win98.
> >
> > that's my opinion....
> > and you all know what opinions are like
> > *haha*
> >
> > adrian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Adrian Smith
> > 'de telepone dude
> > Telecom Dept.
> > x 7042
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
