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[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:44:58 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

>
>I don't remember off the top of my head. Does RedHat offer a local
>time/universal time choice on installation?

Yes it does.  In fact, you can change it after installation by running
the "linuxconf" program.

>
>>Programs, such as OD or others, can have a "sensitivity" list (I
>>think DragText does that too).  These are programs that are known to
>>have problems with interactions.  If that intelligence could be added
>>to a new clock driver, with a list of "compatible" apps, the driver
>>could return GMT, otherwise, local time.  Granted, this would be a
>>royal pain in the patoot, and the program list could be quite long
>
>True. Let's just write an open source, OS/2-equivalent kernel, etc.
>and be done with being locked into someone else's design mistakes.

Well, why bother?  Look at the amount of effort being put into the
Linux development.  Include the SAMBA stuff, the kernel, the KDE/Gnome,
WINE, etc.  There is an equivalent amount of work involved in order to
duplicate OS/2.  And, since this has already been done for Linux, why
not just bite the bullet and move over to Linux?  It is a more reliable
OS than OS/2, is a full 32 bit OS (soon to be 64 bit), etc.  And there
are a lot of apps available.  In fact, I would think that there are now
more apps for Linux than there are for OS/2.

Don't flame me, but an intelligent dialog would be welcome.

Disclaimer:  I use both OS/2, Linux, Windows 95/8, and Windows NT.

JBB
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