On 7 Jan 2000, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> 
> > Sure, that's exactly IMHO the role of people who make NetBSD available
> > on a magazine cover CD. But to me, it's certainly not the role of the
> > NetBSD project to do so. NetBSD is small, NetBSD is Unix, people who
> > won't want to learn the three basic commands you need to use vi won't
> > gain anything from running NetBSD. That's just my opinion again.
> 
> Then thats probably nothing for user Joe Doe? ;-)

Correct.

> I guess some of the momentum of Linux is due to the fact that it has that
> stuff, and you do not need to bother with "vi" and stuff like this
> anymore.

Yes you do, there is no difference between the unixen, bsds and linux 
on this. You can ofcourse use some other editor if you like, such as
jed, jove, pico, joe, ned or whatever.

> We are living in the Year 2000. 

There will always be fringe OSes, there is no reason why Joe Doe should
have to know how to use each and every OS out there. Joe Doe has alot of
options to choose from, no reason to ick the hard ones unless it has a
certain purpose. 

> Just my humble opinion.

An mine :)


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