Re: Can HLA and X get along?

santosh <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait news:fa6ml7$tj$1@xxxxxxxx:

Something somewhere has to be decided. Otherwise it'll be endless
confusion and incompatibility, just what you don't want. Imagine one
distro using /bin, another using /usr/bin, another using
/great_name/bin for the same commands. At least with the existing
system, given a command name, one can, with 95% accuracy tell where
it's likely to be. For example 'ls' will be in /bin, 'ftp' will be
/usr/bin, 'fsck' will be /sbin, and so on.

I can't tell you where i have read this, recently (forgot),
but i recently saw one another example of command that was
here, in such DistroA and there, in such DistroB.


This situation is not any different with MS Windows. Why have
"C:\Program Files", C:\Windows, C:\Windows\system32 etc? Why not have
Windows system files whereever I want, say D:\SYS? It's not possible.
Can we install IE and OE wherever we want? No, it always installs junk
in "Program Files". Also consider the horrible abomination in recent
Windows: "Documents and Settings"

Windows let me save *MY* files where i want. I never unzipped
anything whithout knowing where it would go.


Yes, KDE, or Gnome, or... Well, the worse of fascism, and
the worse of democracy...

Well in Windows you can't even change the window manager, not without
serious difficulty.

Hopefully. I can't understand why on earth the Linux users
could accept such absurdities, as having two windows managers.


Seriously, what do think about having Ubuntu becoming the winner,
in the Linux Hell of the multiple Linux Distros, that create so
much damages to Linux itself?

Most Linux users seem to like the presence of multiple
distributions. Adds variety and interest.

What for? This is so absurd! If the time invested at forking
"MyDistroIsBetterThanYours" with a couple of home made absurd
adds had been invested at something serious, Linux would not
have taken more than 20 years for killing MicroSoft.

Unfortunately that's not the way the world works. We have multiple
versions of everything, from cars to computer programs to wines to
shoes. Name what you will. In a sense it's a strength, but it also
adds to complexity.

Of course, but nobody on earth builds cars for free. They
are building cars for making money. If they were building
cars for rationality, there would exist one or two models.


Throughout history people who've tried to "unify" things, ideas and
people have ultimately failed, or compromised their strict stand.

Right. Human are not rational.


Again why have six different versions of Windows Vista, three
different Windows XP, separate mobile version, separate x86-64 version
and so on...?

There is no reason but the will of making money by selling
the very same OS again and again, just adding such and such
technology novelty. If (the original) NT had been GPed, it
would still exist under the NT Name.

64 is one another story...


Imagine if there was only one assembler and
it's was Herbert's Windela...

Herbert's Assembler is quite good. It was simply useless
to write this kind of home-made Assembler, very *exactly*,
because it is anything but the "only one", and because it
is not necessary to add confusion to confusion.

If "home-made" assemblers should not have been written then there
would not now be any RosAsm, NASM, FASM, YASM, Windela, GoAsm, etc.
Only "Crime&Co" products like TASM and MASM would exist.

We cannot redo history. It went wrong since day one of
Assembly, and nobody ever did what should have been done.
The closer to what should have been done is FASM, and this
Assembler is... Anti-GPL... Go figure! Anyway, after TASM
and MASM had had completely distroyed the area, there was
no more any hope of restoring the situation.


I don't think Linux will ever unify into a single distribution,
precisely because it's open source and GPL. There might come a time
when we only have a few mainstream distributions that practically
everyone uses, (such a time is already at hand), but not into *one*
version.

This was my question. In my opinion, the best way for the
GPL mouvement to destroy itself, is to split it into small
camps, with the associated incompatibilities. And i am, like
you, in the opinion that it will never end. Nowadays, Ubuntu
seems to be the leader. Yesterday, it was not this one, and
tomorrow it will be yet another one.


It is probable that Microsoft will try to extend their tentacles into
the open source world. IBM and HP among others have done it
successfully, and to their benefit, even if the gain is only positive
PR.

Yes (even though i don't kow what "PR" stands for...), but
there is a huge difference, here: IBM and HP are there for
selling gear, mainly, and to take benefit from the volunteers
free efforts. In this case, the voluteers are *used*, but not
really *abused*. MicroSoft is a quite different story. The
volunteers will get completely duped, if MicroSoft keeps
control.


I personally think that Microsoft participating more in FOSS s/w
development will weaken their hold on their traditional markets.

I also tend to think so. Time will tell.


ReactOS should take advantage of the innumerable Linux device drivers
out there, to ever become a viable alternative to Windows or Linux.
The ReactOS kernel should provide an interface for Linux drivers and,
since both are GPL, can use them.

Oh! They are even at war with WINE, actually. I did not
understood what the real problem was. But, for sure, they
would never take the Linux Drivers as much of their efforts
is to provide the interface for Windows Drivers. Since the
last events (Piracy found by one of my fellow, Guga, and
reported by me, since *three months* -???!!!... -), having
achieved into this:

< http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4323 >

.... i suppose that ReactOS is dead, as an alternative, and
will probably take the same path as LinSpire.


Betov.

< http://rosasm.org >



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