[2576] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: More 5.2 preparation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emil Sit)
Wed Feb 10 22:59:09 1999
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:15:59 EST."
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:59:24 EST
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
> should not have to have a network connection to view files on the
> local disk. Besides that, it just seems like a reasonable assumption
I don't agree. While it might be nice, it seems like an overall
lose. Most people *are* usually connected, but having netscape in
/usr/bin will override the infoagents one, meaning they lose all
the (nice) infoagents setup. Perhaps we can put in a "Laptop"
option or something, but most people aren't going to be
disconnected.
> these days that installing an operating system means installing a web
In this case, Athena is providing the web browser.
> browser. (I think Irix comes with netscape in /usr/bin. And that's
> 50% of the Athena supported platforms. :-)
Doesn't look that way to me...
% /bin/ls /afs/athena/system/sgi_*/{srvd,os}/usr/bin/net*
/bin/ls: No match.
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