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Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Carlos Carbajal
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 06:25
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shampoo@unix.infoserve.net (Ken Vong) wrote:

Linux is great: for an educational experience. It is not
user-friendly. But everyone is missing the point of OS wars: apps
determine the success of an OS. Right now this is why DOS/WIN is in
the lead. Linux versions of Word, Excel, Notes, Photoshop, CorelDraw
are unlikely for now.



>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.  

>--
>Ken Vong
>Internet: shampoo@unix.infoserve.net
>Vancouver, BC, Canada
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From: cardinal@swcp.com (Carlos Carbajal)
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Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 06:25:42 GMT
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