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Article #34Re: Question: GUI integrated into Linux ??? - When if ever ????
From: Charlie Luce
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <7fksti$r2d$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, Island Computer says... > >It seems a lot of people answering this question are MISSING the point > >The point is - most people don't know how to load an OS from Scratch like >one has to do with Linux > >Linux needs a GUI built in - just like NT and 98 and 95 and OS/2 - pictures >speak LOUDER THAN WORDS > >Charlie - Your note wasinteresting - I wander if this will ever be ported to >the Alpha boxen Thanks. Corel has mentioned StrongARM as a possibility for their desktop Linux, and they do have an agreement with Samsung (though that's for products under WinNT on Alpha), so I guess it's wait-and-see. There's been a lot of excitement around the new Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 release, which is clearly designed to be a viable alternative to Windows, but Caldera's been an Intel-and-clones-only distribution from the beginning, and I don't really expect that to change -- it's basically a Novell company, after all. What's going to be interesting is what Red Hat does to respond to these products, since as far as I know they have by far the most popular version of Linux for the Alpha processor.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f8a1,de36c506c78ba5f X-Google-Attributes: gid10f8a1,public X-Google-Thread: f7344,de36c506c78ba5f X-Google-Attributes: gidf7344,public X-Google-Thread: 10cebf,de36c506c78ba5f X-Google-Attributes: gid10cebf,public X-Google-Thread: 111c93,de36c506c78ba5f X-Google-Attributes: gid111c93,public X-Google-Thread: 12d31a,de36c506c78ba5f X-Google-Attributes: gid12d31a,public X-Google-Thread: 1164f8,de36c506c78ba5f X-Google-Attributes: gid1164f8,public From: lucejr@eisner.remove.to.reply.decus.org (Charlie Luce) Subject: Re: Question: GUI integrated into Linux ??? - When if ever ???? Date: 1999/04/24 Message-ID: <7frf3d$e7l$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 470237352 References: <7fffg0$lbg$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <7fi697$86e$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <7fksti$r2d$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-ELN-Date: 24 Apr 1999 03:51:09 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Fri Apr 23 20:55:07 1999 Organization: Representing Only Myself Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.dec.micro,cu.alpha.managers,vmsnet.alpha