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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Tue, 6 Dec 2005 16:44:43 -0500

X is fairly standard; at this point it's owned by the X.Org Foundation. I don't know if it's been placed in ANSI-ISO, though.

For its part Win32 is also encased in stone, proprietary as it might be otherwise.

That, too. Not everyone can understand Bash, Tcl-Tk, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

(Not everyone should.)

Mostly irrelevant. The question is not "Where is the One doesn't query a screwdriver; one uses it.

KDE in this case is a subquery of the original objective.

Why indeed? I don't use KDE for the most part.

In Gnome, PrintScreen works. The results can then be saved.

Bug.

Which one did you want everyone to use? I use vi, but many use emacs (and no, I'm not going to reprise *that* ongoing war, beyond mentioning it :-)). Other editors include jedit (a Java-based affair), joe, nano, pico, jed, and the venerable ex and ed. Admittedly, ex has probably already been swallowed by vi.

For its part Windows has at least five: Notepad Wordpad Edlin Edit.com Textpad

Be more specific here.

Wrong question. It should be "Where do I get a first-grade level as appropriate. On Windows one has many choices, such as JumpStart.)

I don't know the answer but, again, you may get some very strange looks if you ask the wrong question.

Not quite, but you're close.

You're right, and that's the question. What does one *do* with a computer? Answer: manage spreadsheets (Excel), edit reports (Word, Notepad), send mail (Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora).

C++ is a subquery. Good catch.

Subsubobjective. Primary objective: get data. Secondary subojective: using uWatec, gnuplot.

In short, somebody thought it was a good idea to code it, and somebody else to publish it in Debian. (Gentoo does not have this package.)

And many are not.

Linux solves *no problems at all* by itself. A screwdriver just sits there; one has to pick it up (learn the system) and use it.

That it will. TCO is not an invalid concept. I'm not sure, however, how to measure it properly, but Linux will require some (re)training.

And this of course automatically makes a software product bad.

Got it.

No, HP's selling hardware.

I am not sure anyone needs malware. :-) Then again, a good firewall solution can be had for less than $100 -- Barracuda and Cisco come to mind.

Given the cost of a good server OS ($800) it's a cheap investment.

Well, personally, I prefer Gnome to KDE. At least Gnome doesn't try to out-gaudy the user.

It doesn't try to give one a cute doggie to search with, either. :-P

No, it's true. Put a Linux Kerberos server in a Windows subnetwork and I suspect one will get disastrous results, as the clients are expecting a totally different response. I've not tried it, of course -- our Windows network doesn't use Kerberos, and I don't know enough about Kerberos anyway, beyond that it uses authorization tickets somehow.

I don't know the details but in this case it's not Microsoft's fault; it's a bad specification, AIUI. Unix implemented it one way, using holes in the datagrams; Microsoft decided to use the holes differently.

So they don't play very nicely.

Why?

It works, but IE is the standard; you should be using it, despite the bugs.

The war has already started. It probably started in 1995... :-)

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