Hi sir Zak,
Zak B. Elep wrote:
If you strictly speak about the Linux community, you wouldn't really be dealing too much with a certain kind or group of people -- that's why it's so hard to actually develop Linux and other applications running on Linux that have to please/cater to a certain group of people.
That's a fact. But in this case, there are communities of people who *can* do something about it, which you don't have so much in other communities working around other (proprietary) environments.
But I did say it is hard to do something about it. :)
To clear things up, when you're trying out something new, and you have preconceived notions about how something similar works, you'd have a very hard time comparing. It's like apples and oranges -- if you're trying out an orange for the first time and have been eating apples forever, you'd be more less tempted to say that "Hey, this tastes so different from an apple!".
Not really. If I've been eating apples forever, it would be a great relief to try something else. There are preconceived notions, yes, but its really the human inertia that prevents us from stepping over the threshold.
I meant tempted to say. What I'm saying here is that if it's the first time you've ever gotten your hand at goind something in a CLI while you've been used to doing close to everything in a GUI, then you'd be more or less tempted to compare the experience of doing it in a CLI to the experience of doing in a GUI. If you've been a GUI person forever, you'd be more or less tempted to say "Hey, the CLI is SOOOO much different from a GUI!" (seems obvious, but you'd be surprised it happens: people stating the obvious. :))
<snipped>Now, it's nobody's mandate to "make the Linux operating environment better than Windows/UNIX/Mac -- it's all just by choice". So as I see
Incorrect. As you may remember, the impetus for the Linux kernel was to make it better than Minix. It wasn't just because of choice. It was because of a need (for Linus to finish his studies) and a want (to improve Minix so it could support more paradigms.) The same motivation happens all over again, in the development of software, whether of free or proprietary pedigree; but in the case of FOSS, there's more leeway.
But I was talking about a mandate, not motivation. And IIRC, in "Just for Fun (Biography of Linus Torvalds)", the Linux kernel was created out of Linus' frustration on the performance of Minix in his 286 -- thus he created a login shell/text editor/dialer application which dialed into a PDP-11 at Univ. Helsinki on which he did his stuff. To cut the story short, since Linus didn't like Minix and how he felt it was lacking, he started working on Linux "Just for Fun" -- and everything else is history. And, IIRC2, Linus didn't need to create Linux to graduate from College and get his Masters degree.
And the initial developers that contributed to the development of Linux "chose" to contribute. They weren't and still aren't mandated by anybody to continue contributing to the development of Linux (the kernel).
Only when there's a constant trickling of water drops (or one big fall of a hammer) can a rock be broken.
There's always a jackhammer. hehehehehe :) Kidding aside, and sayings along the way: If you have an itch, scratch it. ;)
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commercial solutions like Windows has already dominated. I didn't say it's impossible, but I did say it would be hard.
When people keep working on it, that can happen.
True. :)
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