>In article <1992Aug11.124211.5861@klaava.Helsinki.FI>,
wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>
>| >What would linux be without 2 AM kernel patches? :) Or 3 different getty
>| >programs, shoelace, lilo, and 4 different versions of the kernel to play
>| >with? :)
>|
>| Probably dead. I have no intention that this changes, but I don't think
>| anybody is claiming that this is the ideal environment in which real
>| work should be made (no, I don't mean that you should use current Linux
>| for real work when it is still officially in beta).
>
> Linux won't be a "real" o/s until the production kernel (what Linus
>releases) includes support for (at least) SCSI and QIC-02 tapes. What
>good is a neat o/s which you can't back up?
>
> And while I may have have networking at home, most people don't have
>2nd machines, or ethernet, or anything like that, and are backing up to
>floppy, a solution which stops being practical about 20MB, and stops
>being possible about 60MB.
>--
>bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
> I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
