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In <40mknh$r77@news.infoserve.net> shampoo@unix.infoserve.net (Ken Vong) writes:

>Brian Hoort (hoortbri@pilot.msu.edu) wrote:
>: Sounds like Linux to me.  Any features you don't find in Linux could be
>: implemented personally.  Source code included.  I'm reading news at this minute
>: with Netscape under Linux and X11R6.
>: Its' already here.

>How could you say it's the dream OS?  It's like hard.  I'm okay with DOS 
>but I had no idea how to even run progs on Linux.  All I knew how to do 
>was change directories.  And there was like a million directories already 
>made for me :).  If you said it was a powerful OS maybe, but it lacks the 
>user friendlyness, it's definitely not easy to use.  For users accustomed 
>to DOS it's like hell.  Maybe it's just me.  

Actually, with some aliases, you can make linux work like dos.  For
example, because I am a lazy bum, I would rather just type "format" than
mk2fs -t ex2fs /dev/fd0 or whatever it is to make a filesystem on a floppy.

Linux is like unix.  Of course you don't know the commands if you haven't
used unix before, just as you didn't know the commands for dos before you
started using it.

  DOS is basically a crippled unix (for size reasons back in the old days,
so you could fit it on a floppy)  with a lot of the names changed to
protect the innocent.  For example, cp->copy and mv (move) was not
implemented for a while in standard dos, but rename works similarly. mkdir
is the same command, even.

  But Linux really is a dream OS for a lot of ex-dos users because it has
REAL MULTITASKING!  And if you've done any programming, it has something
wonderful called memory protection.  If I am programming in DOS, I can
accidentally overwrite DOS in memory.  This is a LOT harder to do in Linux.
These are just a couple of the features that make Linux a "dream OS" for
many people.

  So basically, you get a high-powered unix workstation on your home
x86 computer that can still run DOS if need be.  My pentium 90 seems to be
faster than a Sparc 20 I have used at work, and I am sure it is faster than
some NeXT machines running the same C code.

  You mention that it isn't user friendly.  To me, a big user-friendliness
issue is customiztion.  Linux is infinitely customizible, because you have
the source code.  You can write anything you want for it.  I won't tell you
that unix is easy to learn, because it isn't for most people.  But if you
can use DOS, simple "use" of linux is not a big step.

  I am sure there are many people who would love to talk your ears off
about the virtues of Linux in one of the Linux groups - this is enough for
c.s.intel. 8')

  Later,
     Hal

(I forgot to mention the best part about Linux...  None of that EMS/XMS
quagmire)
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