From: schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder) Subject: Windows FROM HELL!!!!! (was: Re: Linux on a CD-ROM) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 10:42:10 GMT
Noone yet kows, why mpdillon@uuisis.isis.org (Michael Dillon) wrote:
> [good idea about distribution of linux on CDs deleted...]
>
> Note: when I said Linux will take 2 years to stabilise I wasn't referring to
> bugs, I was referring to porting activity, DOS emulation, MS-Windows
^^^^^^^^^^
> support, etc... etc.. The decade of the 1990's will see many choices
^^^^^^^
> for a desktop operating system and Linux is going to be right up
> there with Solaris, Windows NT, OS/2 etc...
^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do you really think it's necessary to support the
messy-DOS-Windows if you can have X? Do you really see
anything in OS/2 that Linux can't do? (And probably better,
once the version number has stopped changing every other
day :)?????
I don't.
...Wolfram