Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

> 
> Incidentally, a few years ago, I was supporting users on OS/2, Windows
> 95 and NT.  One thing I found is that once an OS/2 user was set up and
> running, I almost never heard from them again.  W95 generated many
> problems and while NT was much better than W95, it still wasn't anywhere
> near as good as OS/2.
> 
OS/2 had its share of weird problems, but to its defence it did successfully solve the 'stupid user' problem without sacrificing usability. Did you know that there was a way to add code to the kernel at configuration time.


Bill
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