Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Tracker1
From : Deuce
Date : Sat Jul 02 2005 02:34 am

  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Tracker1 to Beta on Fri Jul 01 2005 22:03:00

 > Will say most hardware works for most systems in linux... I still don't care
 > much for the difficulty of having a software package installable to muliple
 > versions of multiple distros, but that may just be me.

No, it's everyone in the *nix world. It's also one of the few reasons left that
"real" OSs can look down their noses at Linux.  As well as why many (myself
included) don't consider "Linux" to be an Operating System... the Distros are
the OSs to people like myself.  I have yet to see a major app that has an
installer for "Linux".  It's always been my experience that there's a Red Hat
installer, a SuSE installer, a Debian installer, etc.

Aside from that fact, Linux has good-enoughed the rest of the OS market to the
brink of starvation.  I do have high hopes for SuSE though... we'll see how it
shakes out in a year or two.  I still wish that Plan 9 would get some adherents
and really do up a new OS that does more things Right.  The HURD has promise
too... but it's not even where Plan 9 was 10 years ago yet.  Unfortunately, if
you can't port Mozilla to it, it's effectively a useless OS currently.

I could almost work up a rant how loose unenfoced standard of HTML have
effectively killed any new OS innovation.  Anything that doesn't do "The Web"
coreectly is a toy system not suitable for around 30% ob business applications
and around 99% of home systems.

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