Re: linux _still_ sucks

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: linux _still_ sucks
Date: 20:00 on 16 Jan 2004
I must say you're inspiring a veritable cornucopia of bad memories.

I suppose that's appropriate for this list.

> I used to hates CBM for not doing something more clever with the Amiga
> when their board voted on seppuku, but now I think all those fanboys
> still trying after more than a decade to resurrect the spirit of that
> piece of crap are wasting their oxygen. In 10 years of real development,
> maybe they could have made it a modern OS (again). As it is, it's still
> not modern (again), and it's still ugly.

Well, actually, there doesn't seem to be any part of the software they're
calling Amiga* these days that has anything to do with the software that
made the Amiga interesting and useful, so they seem to have gone to rather
a lot of trouble to start over from scratch and recreate all the bad things
and none of the good.

> I also used to hates Apple for subsuming my sweet, lovely NeXT when they
> borgged with OpenStep, but I just installed OpenStep into Virtual PC,
> and realized that I was romanticizing the whole thing.

The NeXT non-menu-bar is the second stupidest UI innovation I can think
of offhand, after the single-button mouse.

> > And my NeXTstation has just decided to quit booting from floopy. Anyone
> > got a NeXTstation boot floppy image they can send me?

> Have you tried Apple Support?

If I want an intel *step boot floopy, they have a nice selection. Nothing
useful for black hardware, though.

There's stuff above here

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