From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 13 16:50:36 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 13 Aug 2001 23:50:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 36346 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 23:50:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Aug 2001 23:50:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 23:50:36 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15WRTf-0004pX-00 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:50:35 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:50:34 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? Message-ID: <20010813165034.D9477@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <110.3ba074d.28a9a754@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <110.3ba074d.28a9a754@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 05:57:40PM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > On various points. > UNIX has been around forever, and for desktops for fairly long, but by and > large the emphasis here seems to be on the Linux realization, which is about > 10 years old (it seems to be hard to pin down a date) against Windows at a > full 20 years 9reading off the copyright notices). The copyright notices include DOS, which is another beast entirely. > It does not yet come bundled even at places that sell it and it does > not yet work out of the box -- if the instruction booklet that was > included in the last box I looked into is a guide: 20 pages on fitting > it to the machine, involving parts of the critter I don't even want to > know about theoretically, let alone hands-on. Ditto for most of the > software, which then is not nearly so pretty as boring old Word, for > example. Would you please stop making definate claims about things you know nothing about? RedHat requires little to no knowledge of how the computer works, and has a pretty GUI install. StarOffice looks just like Word. > But that will all pass as it succeeds, if it is indeed > basically a better thing. VHS vs Beta. Discuss. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/