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>>Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:27:59 -0400
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT
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>>3. A standard interface. This issue will prove hardest
>>of all because it flies in the face of the Linux gestalt.
>>It's not a technical issue. At least one firm has already
>>built a Win95 clone. Rather it's the problem of getting
>>the fiercely independent Linuxites to agree to a single
>>standard. Remember, the core community is made up of Unix
>>geeks who think graphical interfaces are for sissies.
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>I already mentioned it would be a good idea to develop a common document
>framework based on CORBA for KDE, Enlightenment, Gnome, etc. This would
>make it more flexible to manipulate and use files and applications.
>
>One thing though... Say I was running Communicator on a remote machine
>and using it I was able to create a URL shortcut onto my local
>desktop... How in the world would that work?????
>
We DO have a Common User Interface... It's is called xterm running the bash
shell... You get the "advantages" of X, the wonderfulness of a terminal
emulator, and the standard Bash shell. Who could wan't anything more
standard... in an "ideal" operating system, I wouln't want to be able to
tell weather the program I was running was on my computer or someone
elses... A common user interface is among the lowest of my concerns... an
INTUITIVE user interface, maybe, but I don't want to have a common user
interface, especially if it allows Commercial America to define standards
for a free operating system... and the text of the standard probably
wouldn't be free.
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