On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Yes i agree. But, 1. this is for linux news not personal views on Windows.
So says you. No public list, news or mail, is a forum (or should
be) for personal attacks, nor will ever be devoid of semi-related
topics. Disagreement yes, but to do so by denigrating the character
of another poster ... *NO* ! Calling somebody else's (not even
mine, don't know why i even feel like tryin to educate you) opinion
as: "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."
...is more of a reflection on you than anything else and has no
place in a public forum. _Which is all I damn said to begin with._
and then in the interests of harmony, I tried to change the subject.
> 2. The claims (which are obviously biased) that Win9x is not on operating
> system is just rediculous.
Matter of opinion, it's a GUI that runs on top of DOS. Just the
same as the X-Windows server runs on UN*X (linux). and since most
Linux users are fresh from, still dual boot W9x, it IS on topic.
'Specially since UN*X is not 640K limited, and new users might
benefit from understanding that fact.
Despite any personal feeling you may have about
> the OS it is still plain and simply, an Operating System.
As of win 98, still runs on top of the Disk Operating System
(DOS 7.1) that has a 640K limit. To clarify the basis of my
opinion, I was a W95 and W98 M$ beta tester, M$ educated ;)
I would prefer to
> not spend my time dealing with this subject anymore.
good, not another word after this from me either
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.
Well, here you're definitely out of whack. Any human exchange of
ideas and experience is subject to error/mistake. Personally i've
learned more by my mistakes and errors, and those of others, than I
believe I'da ever learned from perfect people. yeah, that means
sometimes i post wrong stuff.
Each OS has something to
> offer. Let us try to not be so racist. That is my only point.
On that i agree, and since this is a UN*X list, I don't believe
I've been remiss in pointing out some social value that winblows
still has ;> My best advice is that if you're already stuck with
it, wear it out as best you can :> I still use it for burning CD's
and flyin airplanes... just call me SkyKing, you do remember Penny
too, don't ya ? ... ;->
and what'a hell has 'racist' got to do with any of this.. bye
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> ----- 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]
> > > >
> > > >
> >
