On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote:
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>Making the move to Linux means you're going to be exposed to, and likely
>work on, other *NIX flavors.
That's not a valid assumption.
>What good is it to alias a command that works on dozens of other systems
>to something that only works on three?
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote:
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> That's basically like saying that an F-16 should be made as easy
> to use as a glider. Or something like a F1 racing car made to function
> like a peddle car. Yes, Linux or any UNIX can be used as a desktop OS but
> to expect the system to be l
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote:
[...]
>That's basically like saying that an F-16 should be made as easy to use
>as a glider.
Careful. There's a big difference between "being as easy to use" and
"being as capable as". For instance, I'm sure the pilot of an F-16
wants the plane to be as e
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Craig Kattner wrote:
> There's a lot of talk on this list about using FVWM95 as a default window
> manager because it's familiar, but what about command line familiarity? Is
> there no value to that?
Making the move to Linux means you're going to be exposed to, and
l
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Craig Kattner wrote:
> I'm afraid I need to disagree with this. I picked up linux mostly
> because I wanted to have some understanding of unix, but it does have
> potential to be a desktop os. Think about the ease of use complaints,
> the original poster complained about not
> I agree. I personaly don't like Windoze, but there are thing
> Linux can learn from MS: mainly, some easy to use interfaces that can
> help those who just bought Linux to configure their machines and learn
> the basics, so they would be able to go deeper after that.
Could be
