That would be an advantage. Might make someone think about trying it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Marriage <marriage@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner? > One of the nice things about linux is that it is text > based. The gui is simply another program that runs in > linux. Many of the programs used in the gui are just > graphical front ends to the text programs. > > As to the AOL Time Warner and Redhat merger, think about > everyone getting a couple linux CDs in the mail like the do > those AOL CDs. <grin> > > Ron > > > > Thomas Ward wrote: > > > > This is really bad. I shutter to think what RedHat will be like if AOL gets > > a hold of it. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Charles Crawford <CCrawford at ACB.org> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:31 AM > > Subject: Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner? > > > > > I wish I could be as optimistic. Actually, we will have to > > demand > > > that they keep the command line text runtime or they will simply do the > > > migration thing where the GUI is updated and the text is > > > forgotten. Witness the disappearance of DOS. > > > > > > -- Charlie. > > > > > > >Linux already comes with a GUI, but it can safely be ignored. > > > > > > > >On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, David Poehlman wrote: > > > > > > > > > but of course, it won't be accessible because they'll slap a gui on it > > > > > and lock it in. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Speakup mailing list > > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Ron Marriage > Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ > Email mailto:marriage at seidata.com > Linux User Group http://www.seidata.com/~seilug/ > Blind Links http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
