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Re: [TCLUG:12254] Developmental Linux



On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:59:47PM -0600, Eric M. Hopper wrote:
> 
> 	Actually, I've thought of trying to create a distribution that
> was exclusively focused on the user experience.  I was going to call
> it Kansei Linux after the use of the term in the book "Tog on Software
> Design".
> 
> 	I doubt it would interest many people here though since it would
> always make choices in favor of usability.  It would recognize that
> usability is not a perjorative, and user-friendly is not code for
> making sure that even an idiot can use it.

	I just realized I might be starting a flame war.

	I did not mean the above as a slam on the people here.  I just
notice that people here seem to be largely interested in the technical
issues of getting a Linux install working, which is fine.  An OS that
doesn't work isn't an OS at all.  And I have noticed interest in
usability and people not using it as a perjorative, it just doesn't seem
to be the focus.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
Its name is Public Opinion.  It is held in reverence. It settles everything.
Some think it is the voice of God.  Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
broke a chain or freed a human soul.     ---Mark Twain
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org  http://omnifarious.mn.org/~hopper) --

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