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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)
From:       Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov () debian ! org>
Date:       2003-08-06 17:16:50
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Yo!

Em Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:13:44 -0500, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.cx> escreveu:

> I completely agree with you... I was arguing with a friend of mine, a
> Ximian developer. He insisted me that they were bringing Unix to the
> desktop of people, just like what Apple did. I insst that is *not* what
> they are doing. Even though under every Ximian and MacOS X system there
> is a Unix box, the user only uses a strange abstraction that -maybe
> without the user's knowledge- uses Unix itself.

I haven't thought about the Ximian stuff you are talking about, but
yes, I guess you're right. Let's say they're bringing 'Unix-like
quality as a base' in which they build a user-friendly abstraction
layer =).

> Besides, I really doubt that even one tenth of the Debian developers
> would be happy to switch ;-)

Yes =).

[]s!

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