Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:10:50 -0500 (EST) From: Paul W Brannan To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: What's all the hype about OpenDOS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > I think it would be much easier for someone to start a "Lets make > Linux easier for the end user to use" project. Yes! Someone that agrees with me that it would not hurt Linux to make it easier to use! > This would probably mean a NEW special distribution with X, a few No I think it would mean just making X easier to set up. > window managers, an X control panel (BETTER than the dotfile Red Hat has one of those. > generator), a text based console control panel, common configurations YES! Another thing I've been saying for a while! You don't need graphics to have ease of use! > for setting up the MODEM, NULL modem, sound card, email, a dynamic PPP > link (an EASY setup like in Windblows), and other things like a > default sendmail.cf file that is set up for the most common end user > configuration (perhaps also with a control panel entry), I can think Don't forget printer configuration and filesystem configuration. And it would be nice to have an "automount" feature on removeable file systems (or does Linux alread have that?). > of MANY other programs that would be cool to have also. Anyone have > any ideas on this? I think it would be much better than persuing a > NEW GUI in DOS. I do too, but I don't see the Linux thing happening. There are too many idiots out there who think "I'm cool, cause I know how to use vi." Who cares? I could spend my time doing other things. Like having fun. > Also, if such a project is begun for Linux, I feel that ALL programs > that are part of the project MUST be written in C period with the > possible exception of some small bash scripts. I say this because I > think that TCL/TK programs and other shell languages are SLOW!!!!! for > this kind of thing. Or C++. Paul Brannan