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- From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.233536.28788@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: kinglear.cs.colorado.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> <1992Nov20.160323.18982@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:35:36 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- In article <1992Nov20.160323.18982@ms.uky.edu> rankin@ms.uky.edu (David W. Rankin Jr.) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp
- > (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
- >>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.
-
- Joe User won't port code, contribute fixes or source, and will annoy
- real Linux users with his whining about there not being a "real" editor,
- about Linux being difficult because it isn't dos, etc.
-
- So do we care if Joe User uses Linux?
-
- Linux works wonderfully for people who want a 386 unix that runs on
- a wide variety of hardware, uses a minimal amount of resources,
- has many Whizzy Features(tm) (ie, /proc, unified user memory pool / buffer
- cache, VFS layer, etc). On top of all that, you get full source and
- its free.
-
- >>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.
-
-
- >The Macintosh has had quite a bit of sales, and Apple (for good reason)
- >repeatedly warns you NOT to turn off the machine without shutting it down.
- >(Can you say "Destroyed system file?" I knew you could...) After all, how
- >hard is it to "sudo halt" or "su root; halt"?
- >
- >I personally tend to rate the end-user's intellegence a bit high, tho. If
- >my mother can get the hang of using a Mac Classic 2 and Lotus 1-2-3, then
- >most people can handle any UNIX with a good installer. (And no comments from
- >the crowd about Mac, we are talking about my mother here. :)
-
- >BTW: Does anyone know if the sudo writen up in _UNIX System Administration Book_
- >(Nemeth, Snyder and Seebass) is in the public domain or at least for public
- >distribution? If it is, then I think it would be a Good Idea (tm) to include
- >sudo as part of the SLS distribution.
-
- Yes - you can ftp sources from
-
- boulder.Colorado.EDU /pub/sa-book/sudo.v1.2.tar.Z
-
- --
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit. | Drew Eckhardt
- Condemn Colorado for Amendment Two. | drew@cs.colorado.edu
- Use Linux, the fast, flexible, and free 386 unix |
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