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- From: wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl (Wessel Dankers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 10 Mar 96 16:31:31 +0100
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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- Johan Eliasson <nh94jel@kobra.csd.uu.se> wrote:
- >> > "needs so much patching" ??? Do you know how many different linux kernels
- >> > circulate? Better still; AmigaDOS can be patched "on the fly" and doesn't
- >> > have to be recompiled.
- >> So Linux has to be patched once and AmigaOS every time you boot. I know
- >> which way I would choose.
-
- > AmigaOS, right? As you can keep the clean kickstart as it is, and apply
- > and remove (maybe buggy) patches as you see fit. I love it!
-
- Linux doesn't have to go through the tedious task of loading all those patches
- *every* time you boot. It can be customized almost infinitely.
-
- >> > AREXX is a must. Java would be nice too, but just "would be nice to
- >> > have it". Check out Python also (see my port on Aminet).
- >> > Popular "trends" should not be part of the OS.
-
- > Agree!
-
- >> Wrong. Popular trends are what makes an OS (and computer) sell well.
- >> But make them easy to remove once they are not trendy anymore :-)
-
- > When everyone has converted their programs to Java it might not be that
- > easy to remove it....
-
- Then it's beyond the point of "trend".
-
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