[ale] Wine
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Jan 20 11:25:28 EST 2006
docx at io.com wrote:
> On Fri, January 20, 2006 2:27 pm, Geoffrey said:
>
>>I write perfect software all the time. It always does exactly what I
>>code it to do.
>
>
> There are those who don't write code. They buy code other folks have written.
> Does your code do exactly what someone else wants it to?
Eventually..
>>The interesting thing I find about all this is that most open source
>>betas are as stable or more then their commercial alternatives. A very
>>good example is Linux. For the longest time I was running the
>>development kernel tree. I rarely had any problems. Windows on the
>>other hand....
>
> Windows is something that many people are familiar with and does things "well
> enough". They don't have to edit config files, get system information from
> arcane command line programs, or do anything besides point and click (and
> possibly download updates and install them, but folks are used to that by
> now).
Let's not turn this into a windows/Linux debate okay? But, what you've
said might have applied 5-10 years ago, not now. There are a number of
Linux distros that are point and click. My daughter installed her own,
my mother-in-law is on SuSE 10.1 and has been on SuSE since 7.3.
You need to update your knowledgebase.
> For geeks (and I number among that fold), getting Linux (and most any unix,
> for that matter) to do what we want is easy. For Aunt May and Uncle Bob, it
> ain't that easy. And when you're writing software targeted at replacing the
> operating system that Aunt May and Uncle Bob use, it better be as rock solid
> as possible, because the first couple of errors they run intow ill make them
> wonder "What the heck am I doing running this crap? Let me just have my old
> computer back. That worked." It's not that they're getting more errors,
> necessarily, but that they're getting different errors they don't know how to
> work around.
Again, you post might have been accurate 10 years ago, not now.
> I believe that's the primary reason Wine is still in "beta". It's really good
> code, but it hasn't fixed everything yet.
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Until later, Geoffrey
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