Subject: RE: Big surprise: Linux ain't Windows or MacOS. GASP! (was "RE: L inux laptops")
From: fulghum, matt (matt2@bcc.cba.ua.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 15:23:49 MST
I'm with you man; what the previous poster neglects to mention about most of
those other operating systems is that the drivers for those devices were
developed in house, by people who had complete access to the hardware apis,
and were more importantly doing work for hire. this is a totally different
ballgame. the linux on ppc crowd is a very small subset of the overall
community, and anyone who is surprised that YDL is having teething issues in
a 2.0 revision should just go back to os9.
just my $2e-2.
mhf
> ----------
> From: Pete Peters
> Reply To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 4:06 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: RE: Big surprise: Linux ain't Windows or MacOS. GASP! (was
> "RE: Linux laptops")
>
> Sigh, I shoulda known there would be someone who's been playing w/
> computers
> since they were 5. I did not mean to denigrate anyone and/or their
> abilities.
>
> Okay, I give up. Guess I'm too old school, and my expectations aren't as
> high. Then again, my frustration level and blood pressure are probably
> lower, too. <g>
>
>
> Pete
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: will taggart [mailto:annapaxis@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:51 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Big surprise: Linux ain't Windows or MacOS. GASP! (was "RE:
> Linux laptops")
>
>
> I am 27 years old and I have worked with almost every major OS for
> personal
> computers that have ever been released (in varying degrees)including:
> SunOS,
> Irix, UNIX, Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat, and YDL), Commodore 64 and 128
> (BASIC), DOS, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, XP, Trs-80 (BASIC), TI-99 (BASIC),
> Amiga, Atari, Mac OS (all, including OSX/Darwin), Apple IIs and OS/2. I
> think that a command-line interface is generally very easy to use and I
> have
> no problem manually editing configuration files with emacs or whatever.
> However, most of these OSes supported sound out of the box, even the
> TI-99.
> I feel I have the right to be a little bit frustrated. I am not a newbie
> by
> any stretch of the imagination.
>
> William C. Taggart
> Graduate Student, University of Arkansas
> Department of Anthropology
> King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
> annapaxis@hotmail.com
> http://comp.uark.edu/~wtaggar
>
>
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