Re: Linux v/s Mac OS X?

[Mayuresh A Kathe <mayuresh@xxxxxxxx>]

Atul,

I beg to differ on this point...
But, NeXTStep was the *first* Unix to have an absolutely elegant and stable
interface...
(Again, that¹s because they didn't use X Windows ;-)

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To be very frank, X Windows is absolute shit...
It is dead, or rather as they say in America Hospital Slang, it was DOA i.e.
Dead On Arrival

~Mayuresh


on 23/3/2001 1:36 PM, Atul Chitnis at achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Raju Mathur wrote:
> 
>> The days of proprietary OS's and computers are dead except in niche
>> markets.  Apple hasn't been a gainer in the marketplace for the past
>> 10 years at least, doubtful if they'll change their loser status now.
> 
> Actually, the Mac has been pretty good at at least *one* thing - setting
> the standards for user interfaces and usability.
> 
> This will be the first Unix that will actually *have* such an interface
> and be this easy to use. It is bound to make a difference.
> 
> I know that this is not really an OS issue - from our perspective, it is a
> distro and/or X11 issue. But it is an issue, nevertheless.
> 
> Atul