Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Yet, funny enough, when I boot Linux, it screams "FAT support is ALPHA!" 
>   I must have missed that. Where does it say it?

In the text that scrolls up the screen during boot, when /etc/fstab 
includes a windows FAT32 partition in the list.

>   I have never had any problems with FAT support. Maybe it's just me.

Me neither. You need to read what I write more closely.

>> Yeah. Better than X-Windows used to be at the same time.
> 
>   Yes, Unix sucks big time. You should never use it. Demand your money
> back immediately.

I didn't say UNIX sucks. I said X-Windows wasn't color-depth independent 
  as early as the Amiga was. Again, it's that reading comprehension thing.

>> Note that Windows supports DOS programs that bypass the OS in exactly 
>> the same way, and it WORKS.
> 
>   I believe the list of DOS games which don't work anymore in current hardware
> with the current Windows is larger than the list of DOS games which do.

Yep, probably. How many Amiga 1000 games are compatible with whatever 
the latest Amiga is?  How many 10-year-old Mac programs that directly 
address hardware run under OS X now?  (Honest questions - maybe they all 
do, I dunno.)

I was simply pointing out that Windows has useful features that the 
Amiga doesn't, and these features are non-trivial.

>   Yes, like once I tried to install some modem drivers into a WinXP
> system, and at the end of the installation it said "failed to install
> driver", nothing more, nothing less. Not a single hint about why it
> failed.

FWIW, you can go into the "hardware manager" and find the failed device 
in the list and ask it what the problem was.  Linux is definitely better 
with its error messages. If I wanted to annoy the Linux enthusiasts, I'd 
add "because they need to be!" ;-)

Of course, a lot of times, if something fails like that, you don't 
really have much information to give, because if you knew what was wrong 
and how to fix it, you would have done so already.

>   Now, try to google without an internet connection because you just
> failed to install the driver necessary for the internet connection.

Go over to the next machine and google it.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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