SV: Getting there
Hi C.D.
Let's try to keep Debian/Linux free. It's probably an illusion to keep it
that way, but I think it's worth trying. I'm a Debian newbie, and I switched
to Linux for exactly the same reasons; I was tired of breakdowns, sick of
seeing "Microsoft..... document" every time I looked at a file-heading, and
exasperated with not being able to remove IE from my system (f.ex.). I think
a part of the point with Linux is that you can build exactly the right
system for your needs, which of course also makes it harder to install, but
I think it's an advantage in the long run.
On the other hand; I think you're (at least in part) right. The future for
Linux must be somewhere between getting a lot more userfriendly, so that
people like your girlfriend (and mine too...) will be able to install and
use it, and still facilitating all the tweaking that's going on (just look
at this list!). This is why: to enable it to spread and become popular among
every-day-users, Linux will _need_ more userfriendliness, (idiot-safe-ness,
we call it in Denmark), and to develop and grow and become better, faster,
easier, it needs the tweaking and all the nerds and programmers and that
sort of folks, who are making things work.
Why not have several (f.ex.) mail-systems? There could be idiot-proof,
userfriendly systems, and tweaky, sophisticated ones, to suit every persons
need. My girlfriend could be running a supersafe (but slower) system and not
see a line of code or a conf in her life, and I could be sitting there
tweaking and programming and running bleeding-edge potato...
Wish I knew how to program...
Best Regards
Viggo Wichmann
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
If a train stops at a trainstation, what happens at a workstation?
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Christian Dysthe [SMTP:cdysthe@bigfoot.com]
> Sendt: 18. juni 1999 22:00
> Til: Stephen Pitts
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> Emne: Re: Getting there
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>
>
> On 18-Jun-99 Stephen Pitts wrote:
>
> > That's the point. Exim sends mail/sorts incoming mail, and fetchmail
> > provides a bridge from POP3/IMAP and who knows what else. If a new
> > protocol came out tommorow, then fetchmail would be the only program
> > that needed to be modified. MUA means just that - the user's interface
> > to his/her mail files. I've tried a half dozen email programs, and I'm
> > safe in the fact that 33 MB worth of email is safe inside of the
> > mbox-format files. A combo gives you a tremendous amount of flexibilty.
> >
> > While you are checking out X mail programs, look at empath,
> > http://without.netpedia.net/empath.html
> > and mahogany,
> > http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/Mahogany/
> > Both are in the early stages of development. I just sent an email
> > to the author of empath, offering to help with development.
> >
> I am not a dedicated Linux lover. I chose Debian becuase I was tired of
> Windoews
> pissing me off by crashing and loosing my data. Some of the Windows
> applications are brilliant pieces of software, and simple and stable to
> use.
> Especially some of the email clients are. I miss them! I ran mutt for a
> month.
> It's not that I haven't tried. I am doing fine now with my "combo", but I
> do
> not see any reason why easy to use/configure software should not be
> available?
> My girlfirend wants Debian on her machine, but she says she doesnt have
> time
> for all those conf files she sees me editing all the time.
>
> I have gotten off list mailings that suggest I reconsider using Linux
> since I
> feel like I do! I knew it was coming, and it did. Something never changes.
> I
> am just hoping that one change is was the availability of more
> great software on a great platform. I am not able to code, but I am
> willing to
> pay! :)
>
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