Re: [Cooker] some thoughts about the installation
On 4 Aug 2001, Frederik Himpe wrote: I've got some suggestions concerning the Mandrake installation. The first one came in my mind when I read a review of Caldera Workstation 3.1. Caldera was my first distribution I tried, now 1,5 year ago. There was one feature of the installer i liked very much: it starts already installing files in the background, while you are configuring things such as network, printer, etc. This makes installation that bit less boring... I've never installed it, but I love their Tetris idea. We should put some games there to play during the install, but make sure that if some error occurs a dialog will pop up and tell you to switch to the appropriate screen. -- Sincerely, David Walluck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Some thoughts
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 26-May-00 by Hoyt: | Fun to MS bash, but the reality is that MS is the competition and | the poorer product has been known to win and the other die out (VHS | vs. Beta?). In that particular case, the superior technology was far more expensive for the end-user. Additionally, to put it in software terms, the ``Operating System'' (tape format) had to be licensed from Sony. This increased costs for ``developers'' (movie studios), who chose to use the more freely available VHS. Also, it's been quite a few years, but if I recall correctly, beta couldn't get as much on a tape as VHS. People love to pull this example out and parade it around, but the simple fact of the matter is, although beta was superior to VHS in some ways, VHS was superior to beta in some ways too. And with all due respect to sour beta-heads, for those features that were truly important to consumers, VHS *was* the superior technology. Get over it...
Re: [Cooker] Some thoughts
Original Message On 5/28/00, 3:22:32 PM, "Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [Cooker] Some thoughts: Also, it's been quite a few years, but if I recall correctly, beta couldn't get as much on a tape as VHS. People love to pull this example out and parade it around, but the simple fact of the matter is, although beta was superior to VHS in some ways, VHS was superior to beta in some ways too. And with all due respect to sour beta-heads, for those features that were truly important to consumers, VHS *was* the superior technology. Get over it... Doesn't M$ have more than one competitor? And who is grabbing at Amiga's new systems, though they aren't released yet, I haven't heard of anybody trying to make any claims. This also means that we, Linux, have more than one competitor, though the most stress is with M$. Btw, I'm not a M$ buff, and I would very much like M$ to lighten up on the marked, however it is done.
