In article <1992Jul16.154333.5728@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> glong@nyx.cs.du.edu 
(George Long) writes:

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>  First, I have SEVERE moral problems with using a system
>  that supports 3 graphics cards to use all the features.  It really isn't
>  that difficult to write it to conform to some of the other major brands.

        I'm not really sure what you mean here, but if it's not so difficult 
to write in this support, let Linus continue working on what he's working 
on and write the graphic card support yourself.  What's available seems to 
work fine for most of us.

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>  If the author can make his own version of UNIX from the ground up, he
>  should be able to support a few more common video cards.  

        Oh, I'm sure he could if he felt it were necessary.

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>  In addition, what I hear about not supporting a bus mouse is intolerable.  
 
        Well then, don't use it.  

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>  Basically, these two drawbacks will cause me not to use Linux despite the
>  fact that I do have a serial mouse.  However, that is not the point of my
>  message, but that these minor problems should be addressed before major
>  changes are made.

        Well, pardon me for being so overtly distraught at your post,
but we (the users and developers of linux) are not losing anything
from your refusal to use linux.  In fact, I dare say that we gain 
not having to listen to you complain about features that you feel should
have been written in that have not been.  Linux is very much a distributed
development project taken on by a diverse group of talented programmers,
documenters, and users (with much of the work and insight coming from
Linus, of course); if you think there are deficiencies that need
to be overcome and you want to use this OS, then join in and constructively
help overcome these shortcomings.  Otherwise, go buy a commercial
version of Unix and then you have a right to complain about your
supplier not providing you with what you paid for.

        I should probably direct this post to a couple of people who make
these 'constructive' criticism posts every now and then, but you were lucky
enough to add the last straw to this particular camel.  Your constructive
criticism was not very constructive.  

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>  BTW, how does the DOS emulator work for it?

        (I'll refrain from being even more snide here.)