I think you left out a lot of the problems with Windows, and a lot of
benefits of Linux. I seriously don't care who borrows whose GUI, and
Microsoft being an evil empire does not really matter. The free and stable
stuff is only a small part of Linux. Linux is derived from a long history
of development, so there has been a lot of "philosophy" put
into Linux. As I get more and more involved with Linux, Unix, or
whatever, I find that it allows for a much more programming friendly and
hacking friendly environment. Some of the bigs wins in Unix are obviously
networking, multi-user, and speed. That's enough for now.
I am sure Corel's version is very nice, but eventually your Linux box is
not going to look anything like the installation. After tons of
optimizations and specializations, your Linux box is going to be unique,
so have fun building your Linux fort.
Sasha
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Stu wrote:
> Although it's vaguely been mentioned on here, I have to say something
> about Corel's distribution: it's really something special.
>
> I have a Dell 400 with a mix of hardware on and off the supported list
> (The NIC, monitor and sound card have been problems before). I finally
> decided to reformat my drive and start over, and downloaded the Corel iso.
> It boots up, asks me where I want to place it (though I took the time to
> use its pretty neat advanced partitioning tool), asked me whether I wanted
> a desktop, desktop plus (development), server, or custom package (chose
> server). It reformatted my harddrive, installed packages, rebooted. After
> entering a password, I found myself at a desktop. I changed the
> resolution, launched a terminal, and typed in telnet, and it worked.
>
> That's literally it. I haven't told it jack about my computer, and my
> computer isn't exactly the most plug and play friendly. Although I'm sure
> I'll find some idiosyncracies later on, I think it's very important to
> emphasize how nice their installation is (completely graphical as well).
>
> Yes, it does look a lot like Windows, but I don't understand why that's a
> problem. The problems with Windows are mainly that it's a) not free/run by
> Microsoft, and b) that it's less stable than a toddler on crack.
>
> The problem is not its UI. It does have some annoying idiosyncracies and
> flaws like any system, but it's also a well-known interface that virtually
> all computer users are familiar with and can use easily, almost
> transparently. If borrowing an transparent and familiar user-interface is
> something Corel should be ashamed of, this sounds like a very weird
> position to me.
>
> In any case, I'll probably be writing into this list a bit more
> frequently, seeing how I am a complete linux newbie, but just wanted to
> comment on how easy this process has been.
>
> stu / james.stuart@yale.edu / MC 02
> you can see a million miles from here
> but you can't get very far -- AD
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>
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