-={ Пятница, 11 Март 2016, 09:18:53 +0300 }=-

Hey Alexey!

 AV> Those systems simply don't allow the users to do anything other
 AV> than the developers explicitly allowed them to do.

I am not sure it is quite that bad but I agree that it is indeed bad or at
least bad for me as a hardcore user.  Speaking for myself, I prefer systems
that seem to follow the original Unix philosophy especially considering the
marriage of C and the shell.  That is what initially attracted me when learning
Solaris way back when.  Also that was my first exposure to a GUI (X Windows)
which at that time I was totally enamoured with.  However once the initial
infatuation wore off I found myself hacking a 386 with a crappy 16-bit C
compiler trying to make it behave more like csh.  Switching to a 32-bit
compiler on a 496 later on made all the difference but by that time I was
already making the switch to Linux.

 AV> Sad to say, but now the Fedora seems to also be injured by this
 AV> cancer...

I wouldn't know but it doesn't surprise me to hear that.  Myself I have come
very close to shutting everything down rather than surrender to that void but
so far have been able to find a new distraction to keep up my interest.

This utf8 fidonet-ish thingy is a good example.  As long as I totally ignore
any FTSC documentation regarding utf8 - or any character set for that matter -
then things are absolutely fantastic.  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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