Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:26:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:26:07 -0400 Received: from corp2.cbn.net.id ([202.158.3.25]:19725 "HELO corp2.cbn.net.id") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:26:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:27:56 +0700 (JAVT) From: To: Daniel Stone cc: Alexander Viro , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Single user linux In-Reply-To: <20010424225841.D5803@piro.kabuki.openfridge.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hence, Microsoft Windows. It might not be stable, it might not be fast, it > might not do RAID, packet-filtering and SQL, but it does a job. A simple > job. To give Mum & Dad(tm) (with apologies to maddog) a chance to use a > computer. > > > Since when, did mobile phones == computers? read the news! i'm programming nokia 9210 with c++, is that computer enough? i bet if you programmed one, you'd wish you have posix interface. > > > that also explain why win95 user doesn't want to use NT. not > > because they can't afford it (belive me, here NT costs only > > us$2), but additional headache isn't acceptable. > > So, let them stay in Win95. They don't *need* NT. and how's stability, speed, etc. they read. is there a linux advocate around here? > If your sister doesn't want that, give your sister a copy of Win95. If she > doesn't want that, she obviously wouldn't get any advantage out of Linux, as > opposed to Win95, whatsoever. Would she get a kick out of having to learn an > entirely new environment? Granted, I'm far more productive in GNOME, > Sawfish, emacs and mutt than Win95, Word and Outlook, but it takes people > time to get used to, and you'll have trouble dragging them out of > point-n-click. okay, it wouldn't cost me. but it surely easier if everybody used linux, so i could put my ext2 disk everywhere i want. hey, it's obvious that it's not for a server! i try to point out a problem for people not on this list, don't work around that problem. imel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/