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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <BxDLrL.FxE@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Homosexual Fascist Lobby, Rampant Paranoia Division
- References: <Bx577E.AIy@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <BxA67v.G3y@unix.amherst.edu> <BxD9vM.MAJ@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 02:33:20 GMT
- Lines: 66
-
- In article <BxD9vM.MAJ@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- papresco@lambert.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- Haven't you ever heard of 80 character line lengths? Let alone 72?
- Or are you using one of your snazzy GUIs that lets you have 132
- characters per line?
-
- >>>2. It should have a powerful command line.
- >>
- >> Are you really an idiot or do you just play one on Usenet?
- >
- >I'm not sure why you feel the need for personal attacks.
-
- He's probably gotten brain damage from beating his head against this
- brick wall.
-
- >>>3.It should install from floppy as well as CD.
- >>
- >> Ah, you _are_ an idiot.
- >> (Take a look at Linux.)
- >
- >NO, YOU are an idiot, if you see linux as the hope for the future.
-
- What are you talking about? You said that a "real" operating system
- should install from floppy. Linux installs from floppy. Conclusion:
- you lose.
-
- >Imagine if PC-Magazine (or Pcworld etc.) said: LINUX is the best OS in
- >the entire Universe, and it's got EVERYTHING you need to run...all you
- >need is internet access to FTP it, or access to a BBS (what's a BBS
- >says most people)
-
- Um, no ... I think most people say, "Cool! What's the number? What
- baud rate?" What world are *you* living in? One where Prodigy hasn't
- yet been introduced?
-
- >to download it. And then you have to
- >learn to unzip or untar it (what is unzip? What is untar?).
-
- You unzip it with PKUNZIP, Phil Katz's well-known dearchive program.
- Lots of people use it. It's very popular among PC users. But I
- understand the biggest complaint they have with it is that it doesn't
- have toll-free phone support.
-
- (Well, no. That last sentence is a lie.)
-
- >And then you have to make
- >it. (make it? You mean write it from scratch?)
-
- What? Linux comes on a single hardware platform. You get the kernel
- in binaries.
-
- >If you want a nice graphical interface
- >like Windows or Os/2, you have to ftp and make that too.
-
- Um, no ... you just install X from the SLS disks, I believe.
-
- >And even so, most of the software doesn't take advantage of it.
-
- Mm. I know, not having a graphic interface for `ls' or `mkfs' is just
- *such* a hardship. It is to weep.
-
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