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Re: no linux GUI in 97?
- To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: no linux GUI in 97?
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 29 Apr 2001 06:20:07 -0400
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- In-Reply-To: Tzafrir Cohen's message of "Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:45:47 +0300 (IDT)"
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Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il> writes:
> 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.
No, it isn't. Since early 1996 I worked for a company that wrote
mission-critical applications with Linux as a major development
platform. Linux had excellent GUI's (in plural) based on X then.
Much better than Microsoft's, IMHO.
I think Linux even had WYSIWYG office suits by 1997 (was Applixware
out?).
I first saw Linux in action in 1994, I believe. IIRC, it had GUI even
then.
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
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