Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo To : Deuce From : Tracker1 Date : Sat Jul 02 2005 11:20 pm Deuce wrote: >> 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. Yeah, I really liked the Fedora Core 3 installer myself, haven't played with the Core 4, aparently the preference to the newest GCC has a few people in uproar for compatability issues or something... > 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. Yeah, I haven't seen much that works *BETTER* than commercial alternatives, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla products aside, and those don't really include installers, they're included with about every distro on the planet... Hoping for more from SuSE as well, especially with Novell behind the wheel, time will tell of course. > 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. LOL, yeah, I think there are some good things about the web, hopefully another 5 years, we'll actually see css2 and xhtml1 more widely used, and properly rendered... -- Michael J. Ryan - tracker1(at)theroughnecks(dot)net - www.theroughnecks.net icq: 4935386 - AIM/AOL: azTracker1 - Y!: azTracker1 - MSN/Win: (email) --- þ Synchronet þ theroughnecks.net - you know you want it .