RE: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-03 Thread Mike Barton
Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive the same

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:25:30AM -0400, Mike Barton wrote: Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor differences

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread tko
Steve Lamb writes: On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a win95 system? Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of mine. That fabulous, great, decent OS loses it's mind! You see, all

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded Barney on the farm for my daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the Parent's Room segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to whether or not I wanted IE

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread sjc
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 01:37:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded Barney on the farm for my daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the Parent's Room segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:37:43 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? I didn't have to update the drivers of Linux. It came up and running. Win95 on the other hand kept on insisting on rebooting the system for each updated driver. Sure you do. It is just called recompiling the kernel. And

RE: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Rick
Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive the same

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Ted Harding
On 02-Aug-98 Steve Lamb wrote: My secret is that I do not run Microsoft applications. I find that the applications are shoddy, poorly written, thought out, implimented and are often incompatible with themselves in their own versions. I run Win95 for games written by other software

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-01 Thread George R
On 07/31/98 at 10:36 AM, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Apparently you're doing something wrong. Because this *LINUX* advocate has a Win95/WinNT machine at home that rivals the uptimes of my Linux box. I have yet to lose data on that machine because of the OS, same as my Linux box. In

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows I wonder if you would have the same

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread tko
Please allow me my two cents of experience with Lost95 (if they don't 'Win', they 'lost') C.J.LAWSON writes: On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a win95 system? Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of mine. That fabulous, great, decent OS loses it's mind! You see, all information about the hardware is

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread Christopher Barry
My experience also with Windows 95 has been pretty solid. I've had months of uptime with Windows 95 with the only problems being occasional GPF errors that close all open Netscape windows. But other than that it's been pretty rock solid for me as long as I haven't installed library type software

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:43:20 +0100 From: Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds interview Resent-Date: 22 Jul 1998 17:47:40 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds interview Resent-Date: 22 Jul 1998 18:01:52 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows took many years to

User interface (was Re: Linus Torvalds interview)

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Hello! Do you think MS took only 5 minutes to design and implement the UI? Or FAT32? I don't think so. Speaking of UI check this out. http://www.insanely-great.com/Interface maybe this will convince you that MS took 5 minutes or less to

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 08:06:40AM -0700, Alexander wrote: Hi... Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows took

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 02:12:44AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen it is

Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-22 Thread Keith Beattie
fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html ksb -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head screwed on right (apart from the I don't think Microsoft is an evil company bit which I

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-22 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head Linux the OS or Linus the person? Do