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- Path: sparky!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!yktnews!admin!watson!scifi!njs
- From: njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich)
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp>
- Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY
- References: <17612@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:04:44 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> Neklan_Brozensky@mindlink.bc.ca (Neklan Brozensky) writes:
-
- >BTW I'm a new linux user, and like the original poster of this thread, I
- >agree that A simple prepackaged Xwindow linux could really make some noise on
- >the desktop, but *only* when it has DOS compatibility.
-
- I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
- be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck. This isn't an
- impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
- think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
- turn off whenever they want to.
-
-
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