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Article #974Re: Dream OS = Linux
From: Jon Martin
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:07
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:07
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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.
No denying that UNIX and friends have a steep learning curve. Once you do
learn how to use it, you will never turn back. When I started using UNIX
systems about a year ago I hated it. Why couldn't we use DOS at school, whine,
whine... Then after I invested some time in learning about how the system works
I found I hated the limitations and inflexibility of DOS. Give Linux a chance.
It is well worth it.
--
Serve the Emperor.
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Jon Martin * cs94367@cs.ualberta.ca * http://www.ualberta.ca/~jomartin/
Entering Department of Computing Science at University of Alberta.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!assn105.cs.ualberta.ca!cs94367 From: cs94367@cs.ualberta.ca (Jon Martin) 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: 14 Aug 1995 09:07:20 GMT Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <40n3o8$6ca@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> 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: assn105.cs.ualberta.ca Originator: cs94367@assn105.cs.ualberta.ca