On Monday 03 September 2001 03.46, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
Most users would not even consider Linux after hearing of its disadvantages as a home OS: StarOffice is nowhere near as fast or feature-full as MS Office, IE is nowhere near as stable and fails to render all pages perfectly, fonts (even anti-aliased) look like crap compared to the latest WIndows / Mac desktop (my win95 installation has better / more fonts than my SuSE 7.2 installation), no standard package format, no standard GUI, no standard video / audio API (a la DirectX), etc.
Ah, now this is obviously a new meaning of the word 'standard' that I was previously unfamiliar with. RPM may become (or has it already?) a standard. OpenGL is a standard. SDL is a standard. CDE is a standard. Audio I don't know. I think they're working on a standard to parallell SDL, but I'm not sure. I wasn't aware that DirectX had been ratified by a standards body. Of course, I could be wrong, I often am. But until it is, please don't refer to it as a standard. regards Anders