From: Betov on
santosh <santosh.k83(a)gmail.com> �crivait news:fasi3n$1gp$2(a)aioe.org:

> Yes, one Mark Shuttleworth.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth>


Thanks. Good to know. Here, in France, we are quick at
suspecting any rich man, giving money away, to have to
have some dubious idea behind his head, you know. It
seems to me this one is quite the good guy for a good
project, after reading his page. Don't you think so?

:)

Betov.

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From: Betov on
"rhyde(a)cs.ucr.edu" <rhyde(a)cs.ucr.edu> �crivait
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> Tell us more, oh hypocrite!

Hi! Troll. How are you?

:)

Betov.

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From: Betov on
santosh <santosh.k83(a)gmail.com> �crivait news:fashvo$1gp$1(a)aioe.org:

> To enable the root account, which is disabled from logging in by default,
> under Ubuntu, just do, 'passwd root'

Again, *NO*. This does not exist under Ubuntu.

How do you think i actually download and install Software,
if i did not know how this point works? There is no need
of "root", which is assumed, when "sudo"ing, under Ubuntu.
A good thing, by the way...


Betov.

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From: Wolfgang Kern on

santosh replied:

....

>> Where is this "Standards Base" to be found ?

> <http://www.linuxbase.org/en/LSB>

>> What are the standard API calls and which are mandatory ... ?

> <http://www.unix.org/version3/>

>> Google shows me tons of worksheets in all HLL slangs, but
>> where is the definition of what's valid and finalised ?

> These are valid, but they are all ongoing efforts, specially the Linux
> Standards Base standard, the first link above.

>> My KESYS use an API somehow similar to Linux (except for parameter
>> pushing and protected INT-calls), so I may be able to emulate Linux
>> but within the GUI of of my OS.

> Basically, to emulate Linux, you have to implement most of the calls
> mentioned in the Single Unix Specification v3, i.e. the second link above.

Thanks, I'll check on this two, even I may have to wait until the
'standards base standard' becomes a trustable final definition :)
Ok, at least I can check how much work it would be.

.... loading

I now got a list of function-names from "add_wch" to "zcat"
and to which UNIx version they apply.

But where is the description of this functions ?
[parameters and what they are supposed to perform]
"ADD a WC high" and "Zero the Cat" are perhaps talking names,
but easy to misinterprete :)

Am I asked to purchase a couple of books ?
or is there any free online resource ?

__
wolfgang



From: Betov on
santosh <santosh.k83(a)gmail.com> �crivait news:fashvo$1gp$1(a)aioe.org:

> Absurd. By the same logic, we must destroy multiplicity in everything.
> To do that we must destroy everything in world except... one person.

Ah, i forgot that one. Again the abusive generalization
mechanism. :))

One logic may be correct here and wrong there. In the
case of UI, there is no need of multiplicity. All the
opposite. There is a critical need of uniformization.

The only result, with having two different UIs, doing
almost the same thing, under the very same OS, is with
having the same work done twice. What is the interrest
with having a choice, here? Well, you might prefer KDE,
and i might prefer Gnome. And then? Can't you live with
Gnome? And can't i live with KDE? And why not 2,879 UIs
doing the same thing, with minor differences, while you
are at it?


Betov.

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