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Re: no linux GUI in 97?
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- Subject: Re: no linux GUI in 97?
- From: Alon Barzilai <alon(at-nospam)skyline.co.il>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:50:22 +0200
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not clueless?
look what he wrote me this morning:
"I did not write that Linux started in 1997. As for GUI, it still
doesn't
have one in the conservative sense. The GUIs offered are more like
elaborated skins than real GUIs."
X windows is elaborated skins?
Alon
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Uri Bruck wrote:
>
> ?
> ? I know that date is wrong, but one of the Captain Internet writers seems
> ? to think that "when linux first showed up in 1997 it had no GUI".....
> ? Seems to have strange ideas on when linux showed up.
> ?
> ? Anyone wants to set him straight one that?
>
> The author (Ori Redler) is not as clueless as the article suggests. He
> knows linux pretty well. From what he wrote to me, that article was
> severly edited. The original wording was something like "in 1997 linux had
> no decent GUI", which is quite correct.
>
> This applies to various other incorrect facts in the article, thus there
> is really no need to "set him straight"
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
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