From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Debian/GFDL
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:21:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmavhttc.fsf@hans.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0611130433y7c9f5697t1ebfb75bd3f9b7ef@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon\, 13 Nov 2006 13\:33\:23 +0100")
"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On 11/13/06, Ismael Valladolid Torres <ivalladolidt@terra.es> wrote:
>> Debian's fights are often considered silly from outside Debian's "way
>> of thinking". Nevertheless this way of thinking served creating the
>> best operating system in the world.
>
> I wasn't aware that Debian developers were the designers of VAX/VMS.
>
You made curious, how could--I assume--an old, probably not further
developed OS be better than our modern OSs? I guess you've purity or
cleanliness concerning the design in mind, haven't you? Would it be
advantages even nowadays to run VAX/VMS from a user point of view?
Sorry for my total ignorance of VAX/VMS.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-13 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-10 17:06 Debian/GFDL Nicolas Neuss
2006-11-10 22:01 ` Debian/GFDL Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-10 22:14 ` Debian/GFDL David Hansen
2006-11-13 10:49 ` Debian/GFDL Ismael Valladolid Torres
2006-11-13 12:33 ` Debian/GFDL Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 15:04 ` Debian/GFDL Ismael Valladolid Torres
2006-11-13 15:09 ` Debian/GFDL Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 16:11 ` Debian/GFDL Ismael Valladolid Torres
2006-11-13 17:56 ` Debian/GFDL Gian Uberto Lauri
[not found] ` <mailman.509.1163443911.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-14 2:09 ` Debian/GFDL Will Parsons
2006-11-13 22:21 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2006-11-13 22:33 ` Debian/GFDL Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.528.1163456488.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-23 10:38 ` VAX/VMS (was: Re: Debian/GFDL) Per Abrahamsen
2006-11-24 19:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-24 21:06 ` VAX/VMS Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] ` <mailman.417.1163196096.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-11 13:50 ` Debian/GFDL David Kastrup
2006-11-11 15:30 ` Debian/GFDL David Hansen
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