What Linux needs 13531
On Thursday 03 November 2005 21:29, TheLetterK stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...:
On Saturday 05 November 2005 17:04, Karel "de Jazz" Jansens stood up and spoke the following...
To what end? The space shuttle has no gears, as you don't need those with rocket thrusters.
What I mean is that GNU-Linux *is* a different operating system from Microsoft Windows. It's not just different in that it's Free & Open Source Software, or that it's binary not compatible - thank God for that!
the world of minicomputers, which are multi-user systems. Originally, they had teletypes as their terminals, and later they begot CRT terminals. Such systems are still being used today.
Just because it happens to run on the x86 doesn't mean that it's equivalent to Windows. It's a whole different beast, and to alter its make-up or the way it is administrated or configured, would undo everything it stands for.
It's not GNU-Linux that needs to change, it's the people who want to be using it when they've previously ran Windows.
Like you said, KDE and Gnome already make up for a great deal of user-friendliness. So now it's time for the user to become a little more computer-friendly, with the word computer in its broadest sense.
A computer running Windows is a PC. A computer running GNU-Linux is a multi-user client-server machine. Dealing with sophisticated technology requires technical insight and responsibility. Without those, the human mind will never evolve. And judging by what goes on in the world around us, I'd say that's all too obvious...
Aragorn OT: There's a strong argument suggesting that 'global warming' is, in fact, a natural cycle of the earth. Hydrogen also has it's own problems--no one is...
We already know that human activity is at least for a major part responsible for global warming - which, if it goes on for a little while longer ironically will bring Europe into a new ice age - and yet we keep on pumping filth into the atmosphere, and we milk out car owners by pushing the price of petrol up, while there could just as easily be made use of alternative forms of energy, such as the hydrogen cell - which is beginning to get accepted now, but this technology has already existed for years.
History shows us that many advanced civilizations have already annihilated themselves in the past, and yet we're still doing the same thing as those who showed us what not to do by their dissolution. The only difference is that we've got more technology now.
We've got better weapons that can kill more people at once - and even obliterate the entire planet about 12 times, or the surface alone about 45 times.
Other than that, there still is poverty, famine, drought, war, child abuse, prosbreastution, theft, liquidate, rape, extortion, genocide... You name it, we've got it.
I guess man *will* never learn, because learning requires willpower, and man is still just an animal, doing what he wants to do and not what he should be doing.
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, chrisv wrote on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:06:12 -0600 It depends on the context. In this...
Usenet denizen - I'm sure many of you will recognize his name... ;-)
"Argh! Humans!" -- Prof. Peter T. Breuer on A.O.L.M., 2002.
-- With kind regards,
*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)
Aragorn We also know for a fact that a significant percentage of climate changes did not...
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