On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, james.fogg wrote, foaming at the mouth:
> Sorry, but yet another opinion....
>
> I find that a good operating system has a reason for everything and when I
> finally understand the O/S, I agree with the reasons. This has been true of
> AOS/VS (ok, anybody remember that one?), O/S-9, CPM, RSTS, VM, MVS,
> Unix/XENIX/Linux and others. The O/S that resembles a Kommitee Kludge and is
> supposed to be easy to configure is the one I never seem to agree with its
> conventions. But maybe after all these years I just don't understand NT yet.
>
Since this was posted twice I decided to elaborate.
1) Talk about heated feelings, WOW.
2) Nowhere in my opinion statement did I say that LINUX is at fault, it is the
convention of incomplete installs I am talking about.
3) My first OS was on a NorthStar floppy in a homebuilt system(1974). I've used
DOS(2-6.2), CPM, various Mac systems.VM,VMS,Unix and the OS the Data General
Nova used for paper tapes, so my OS lineage is close to as old as yours.
4) I LIKE Linux, that is why I'm trying to do all this stuff!
%) I live about 2 hours from the nearest Linux gurus so I depend on you
experts for help.
Jim "I'm not trolling, but I've hooked something" Hodgers
> > -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Hodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 2:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Can't install KNEWS, and an opinion
>
> Now my opinion
> I am a programmer writing Accounting software for the Windows platform
> using Visual Basic.
> One of my REQUIRED tasks is assuring that the program will load on ANY
> Windows machine
> meeting the required hardware, using either Win95 or Win98. ANY required
> libraries MUST be
> included to assure this. In the Linux, it is quite common to find that you
> must go out onto
> the net and search for and load many required libraries, sometimes even
> those won't install
> until other files are obtained. Why not provide a COMPLETE package for
> those that need it?
> All the required dependency stuff it GPLed so all you would need to do is
> acknowledge the
> sources. This seems to be a matter of some heated feelings with some
> developers, in fact
> I was thoroughly chewed out by one developer whose program I still can't
> install.
> As long as Linux continues to have these niggling issues it will remain out
> of the
> range of most users.
>
> PS I know! Visual Basic, ugg, yeck, boo hiss! It gets the job done and pays
> the bills.
