Seen on Zdnet: "Will the latest Ubuntu distro finally provide a mainstream Windows alternative?"

[Michael T. Richter]

On Sat, 2007-21-04 at 20:59 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:

> >> It is because of people like this I would have been using Linux a
> >> decade ago , not only two years ago.  I can still remember what I
> >> expected when I first used Linux, I was expecting a basic Unix command
> >> line. 



> > That's basically what you would have got, a decade ago...  ;-)



> No, in 1997 you got X with a bunch of window managers to choose
> from. But the installation was a bit more difficult than today...


And the main use of X would have been running several copies of xterm so
you could use the command line interface....

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