Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 May 1996 08:08:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | "William E. Roadcap" <> | Subject | Re: Crap: CONFIG_RANDOM and TCP FILTER |
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On Sat, 25 May 1996, Lauri Tischler wrote:
> Anno Domini 24 May 96 at 10:58, William E. Roadcap wrote: > > Although I see your point, and agree to a _certain_ extent, there are many of > > us who want to see Linux become a mainstream success. Although I hate to > > make a comparison to DOS and Windows, those OS's (can we call them that?) > -- maybe we can call 'em 'bios extensions' -- :) > > > became such successes partly because they fit the desktop so well. > > No, thats not true. They became successes because they have USER > APPLICATIONS available. The lack of applications is a _major_ > problem before Linux can become a mainstream success.
And why do you think those user apps where written for those OSs. Because they fit the "users'" desktop....
Don't forget, when DOS became popular it was at a time when Unix could not be run on a desktop machine (not enough resources).
Anyway, fitting the desktop is an important part of the equation but not the only part, I concede.
> I can just see myself going to the secretarial pool and say > 'Hey girls, over the weekend we have formatted your disks and replaced > MS Windows and Word and Excel with this new wonderfull Linux stuff > and Latex, go for it'.
Yea, Yea, do it! Ha! Ha! ;-) __ William E. Roadcap mailto:roadcapw@cfw.com TITUS Software ftp://titus.cfw.com/pub Waynesboro, Va (USA) http://www.cfw.com/~roadcapw
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