On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:07:04 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> The trouble with Linux is that everything is 50,000 utterly *tiny*
> pieces, each of which does almost nothing useful by itself, and you have
> to put thousands of these tiny pieces together to do anything useful.

Well, that's a fallacy right there.  I'm running a monolithic application 
at the moment called "pan", which is a newsreader.

I've got another fairly monolithic application called "firefox" running 
in the background, and another called "OpenOffice" that's at the 
standby.  Also one called "Pidgin" which is an IM client.

None of these apps particularly *requires* any of the standard command-
line utilities on my OS for anything short of building it (if I should 
desire to do so).

Jim

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