Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user)

[Kathleen Dickason]

Jeff Malka wrote:

> > Well...maybe Linux isn't for everyone, but then no OS is for everyone,
> IMO.  Choice is good...
>
> It is, but for an OS to survive it must attract and "keep" a sufficient
> audience,  Otherwise it might have the same fate as OS/2 which is also an
> excellent multiuser stable OS.  Do not ask why I am leaving OS/2, because I
> am not really, just learning a new OS and noting how it appears to a non
> programming guru.

Well...that's a very different situation.  OS/2 declined because IBM made a
corporate decision to stop developing and supporting it, not because of any
lack on its part.

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Kathleen Dickason
Registered Linux user #182139