Re: HELP!About download FC4 images.

In comp.os.linux.misc Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:24:35 -0500, Jean-David Beyer staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
>> moma wrote:
>>> CAPSKOV wrote:
>>>> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
>>>> Too many images to my downloading. Microsoft Windows XP only ONE
>>>> CD-rom. INTRICATE!
>>> At least with Fedora, you have the software in hand. When you
>>> install Microsoft Windows you PRACTICALLY get an empty machine
>>> without applications.
>> You are right there! Can you imagine an OS you must pay for where you
>> do not even get a compiler? What good is a computer when you cannot
>> even write programs for it?

> What, did they remove GWBASIC from 'DozeXP? :-)

Isn't it an interpreter "language"? ;-)

>> Even with the UNIVAC I and the IBM 704 you got assemblers for them at
>> no extra cost. And that was about 60 years ago. Microsoft still has a
>> long way to go.

> Today's typical user doesn't know *how* to program. Sad but true. When

Even moving a mouse isn't that easy today.

> I started using computers (Apple //c, w00t!) a lot of simple utilities
> were written in BASIC. That sucked as a language, but it was relatively

Iirc those had or came with pascal, which was the preferred
programming language those days in schools, if yours was lucky
enough to have a few of those darn expensive systems. The major
problem was they didn't have much if any teacher who were able to
teach kids about them, let alone being comfortable with the
equipment.

> easy to understand and could always be LISTed. One of the first things
> my father did on that machine was write a simple text editor, because
> the //c didn't *have* one. It was a bitty box with 64K address space
> and no multitasking, but hey, you had complete control over its
> hardware, and the manuals had a wealth of actual tech specs.

> Now, there are tons of commercial and Free utilities out there to
> satisfy almost every application need. So doing simple "normal user"
> tasks doesn't require any programming, so few people learn it. It's

Most are lucky if they can handle the system and a few apps
reasonable (until the next planned/unplanned reboot).

> like cars--very few people are interested in fuel injection profiles or
> how to replace spark plugs; they just want to get groceries and drive
> the kids to school.

Ack, they don't know anymore even the most basic things about
cars and just wonder if something goes wrong.

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