From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: MichaelM <michail@manegakis.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: LPP (was: The new X-Kernel !)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:13:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011022121326.B25329@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011021220346.D19390@vega.digitel2002.hu> <15vQtM-22TOdsC@fmrl02.sul.t-online.com> <20011022022839.A8452@unthought.net> <15va3i-0cRXvcC@fmrl00.sul.t-online.com> <20011022103411.A17996@crystal.2d3d.co.za> <00e501c15b06$782beac0$5cbefea9@moya>
In-Reply-To: <00e501c15b06$782beac0$5cbefea9@moya>
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:33:07PM +0100, MichaelM wrote:
> From: "Abraham vd Merwe" <abraham@2d3d.co.za>
>
> >See the difference between the O/S in question and the one you might be
> >confusing it with is that this O/S was (and still is) written and being
> >maintained by technical people. These kind of people like to know what's
> >going on. It also happens that the primary audience for these people's work
> >is themselves (us) and NOT novices - that my friend, is a bonus, not the
> >sole aim of the exercise.
>
> Have you ever thought that people get great difficulties when they try to
> change to linux, e.g the partitioning, 3d games graphics ;) etc..
>
> ... therefore, only technical and technical-wanna-be people remain?
>
> It's quite clear to me.
>
X in the kernel won't help with that.
The progress bars will make it *look* less technical.
The setup of hardware like 3d graphics is up to the distribution. Those are
the people you should be talking to.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-22 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-20 21:30 The new X-Kernel ! MichaelM
2001-10-20 21:43 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-21 0:08 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-10-21 7:37 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 8:33 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-10-21 8:50 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 9:13 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-10-21 17:06 ` James Simmons
2001-10-21 10:26 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-10-21 14:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 17:18 ` James Simmons
2001-10-21 17:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 17:40 ` James Simmons
2001-10-21 19:17 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-22 0:10 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-10-22 0:37 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-22 17:18 ` James Simmons
2001-10-22 16:51 ` James Simmons
2001-10-22 18:35 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-23 7:05 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-10-21 19:53 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-22 17:04 ` James Simmons
2001-10-23 6:45 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-10-21 12:54 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 15:37 ` john slee
2001-10-21 19:04 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 20:03 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 21:06 ` LPP (was: The new X-Kernel !) Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 21:22 ` The new X-Kernel ! Federico Sevilla III
2001-10-21 21:31 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 21:38 ` Sean Cavanaugh
2001-10-21 21:52 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 22:39 ` Oden Eriksson
2001-10-22 4:44 ` Sean Cavanaugh
2001-10-21 21:53 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 22:19 ` LPP (was: The new X-Kernel !) Tim Jansen
2001-10-22 0:28 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-10-22 0:57 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-22 8:34 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2001-10-22 0:24 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-10-23 20:50 ` Petr Baudis
2001-10-30 2:18 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-10-22 9:37 ` Sunil Phatak
2001-10-22 9:47 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2001-10-22 14:33 ` MichaelM
2001-10-22 19:13 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2001-10-22 11:42 ` David Relson
2001-10-21 22:14 ` The new X-Kernel ! Leo Spalteholz
2001-10-22 5:17 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-10-21 16:09 ` Malcolm H. Teas
2001-10-21 19:04 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 19:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-21 19:30 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 19:49 ` J Sloan
2001-10-21 21:12 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 21:20 ` D. Stimits
2001-10-21 21:41 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-22 5:42 ` Dwayne C. Litzenberger
2001-10-31 17:34 ` Jim Freeman
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