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Article #1442Re: Dream OS = Linux
From: Carlos Carbajal
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 06:25
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sloth.swcp.com!usenet From: cardinal@swcp.com (Carlos Carbajal) 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: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 06:25:42 GMT Organization: Southwest Cyberport Message-ID: <41bp9a$2lj@sloth.swcp.com> References: <3uhptl$1jdt@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>,<3v6kj3$q1l@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <dblakey-1008951144220001@dblakey.wat.hookup.net> <40l9d9$8i1@news.ios.com> <40lplj$qi5@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <40mknh$r77@news.infoserve.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp37.swcp.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55