I must agree here also. I really don't think we need to worry too much about the text console going away any time soon either. William On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:27:04AM -0500, Buddy Brannan wrote: > Must agree with Toby here. And Janina. And... > > Bear in mind that GNU/Linux (and indeed any un*x-like environment) is > necessarily different from DOS, Windows, and the like. The systems are > meant to have multiple users, so they do a lot of things at once very > easily, because they were designed that way. > > Moreover, the way that things *should be* programmed for this > environment is necessarily different. Note i said *should*, because > obviously it's not always done this way as we all know. But generally, > X-Window programs are merely front ends to other things that don't > require X, and non-X front-ends are generally available--or can be > written. Interfaces are generally separated from the main > program--this isn't true of Windows and its ilk. Certainly it isn't > always true under GNU/Linux and other Un*x-like environments either, > but it's true enough that I don't think we need worry about text > consoles going away any time very soon. > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3 | "And if the ground yawned, > Phone: (814) 455-7333 | I'd step to the side and say, > Email: davros at ycardz.com | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!" > http://www.ycardz.com/ | --Eddie From Ohio > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
