Yes i agree. But, 1. this is for linux news not personal views on Windows.
2. The claims (which are obviously biased) that Win9x is not on operating
system is just rediculous. Despite any personal feeling you may have about
the OS it is still plain and simply, an Operating System. I would prefer to
not spend my time dealing with this subject anymore. This is a mailing list
for people seeking knowledge and one bad "opinion" from a person may have a
severe effect on someone just starting out. Limiting their experience and
personal growth in everything that is out there. Each OS has something to
offer. Let us try to not be so racist. That is my only point.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*
> 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]
> > >
> > >
>
