Came across this article from a decade ago
<https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html>
about the evolution of the POSIX and Win32 standards from the viewpoint
of a veteran who earned his scars in the trenches.
While POSIX got one or two things spectacularly wrong (e.g. the
disaster that is file locking), it got a lot of things right (e.g.
abstracting data types for file offsets/sizes, timestamps etc).
Wonder why WINE has taken so long to get to where it is? It’s because
nobody can be quite sure they have flushed out every last wrinkle of
the behaviour of every Win32 API call.
"After two years of hard work (and much to the dismay of naysayers who
worried the project has been abandoned), the Xfce team has announced
the release of Xfce 4.12. Highlights include improvements to the
window switcher dialog, intelligent hiding of the panel, new wallpaper
settings, better multi-monitor support, improved power settings,
additions to the file manager, and a revamped task manager. Here is a
quick tour, the full changelog, and the download page. I have been
running it since Xubuntu 15.04 beta 1 was released two days ago. It is
much improved over 4.10, and the new additions are great."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/03/01/0558259
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
