the future of Linux (was Re: mlb.com)

[David Poehlman]

and they don't have text now?
We do have a run box and a dos like environment even in xp pro.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Crawford" <ccrawford at acb.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: the future of Linux (was Re: mlb.com)


I truly hope you are right.  I just remember what we all said with Windows 
and how they would always need text of some kind.



On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Umm. Charlie? I seriously doubt this. After all, unlike Windows, Linux
> is fairly modular....the gUI is separate from the OS itself. While I
> expect that the command line (in this case, bash) isn't right in your
> face, well, considering that a *lot* of stuff relies on it (ever
> notice just how many bash scripts your system really has?), it's not
> going anywhere any time soon. 
> 

-- 
-- Charlie Crawford



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