On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:32 +0100, Marco Ciampa wrote: > See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Mike_Gancarz:_The_UNIX_Philosophy > > And think about this: it is the sole 40 years old OS working (well) out there. > There should be a reason. TBH, Unix is only a family of operating systems, not even with the oldest heritage, or the best compatibility. Take IBM OS/360...z/OS where you can still run programs from the mid-60s on a mainframe of today, both older and more compatible. Not that it would be of any use to a casual user of image manipulation software ;-). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Wilhelmstraße 22 / D-71229 Leonberg nils@xxxxxxxxx / nils@xxxxxxxxxx PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 Ever noticed that common sense isn't really all that common? _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
