Pair of Twiggys

Peter Coghlan cctalk at beyondthepale.ie
Wed Mar 15 16:17:20 CDT 2017


>
> The whole idea of an "operating system"  seems to have morphed into the
> notion of a user interface.
>
> To my way of thinking,t he various flavors of Linux are really a user
> interface build on a single operating system.
>

Has anybody else noticed that the meaning of "portable code" seems to have
morphed into "can be built on two or three different flavours of Linux"?

>
> One thing you can depend upon in this field is the inconstancy of
> definitions.
>

Agreed.

Regards,
Peter Coghlan


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