Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Lars Hecking
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 19:19

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In article <40snkn$i5r@hydra.Helsinki.FI> jmalahti@cs.Helsinki.FI (Jussi Lahtinen) writes:

   In <40p3tc$a79@student.anu.edu.au> Jason Stokes <J.STOKES@student.anu.edu.au> writes:

   >UNIX, and I assume its counterpart LINUX, just totally fails to hide OS
   >details from the user.  It seems I have to learn a whole new language
   >(can anyone explain EMACSese, for >example?) just to operate it.  What it
   >needs is a really good OOUI/GUI that gives drag'n'drop functionality.  
   >I've seen its windowing system, X-windows, and I don't think much of it.

   X-windows IS NOT GUI. It is just windowing system. Don't compare apples
   and oranges.


There is no such thing as "X-windows":

$ man X11
bla ...

The X Consortium requests that the following names  be  used when referring
to this software:
                                  X
                           X Window System
                             X Version 11
                     X Window System, Version 11
                                 X11

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From: lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie (Lars Hecking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux
Date: 17 Aug 1995 19:19:26 GMT
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