Dennis Ritchie has died

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote: Absolutely. When I was offered the choice in 2007 between a work-provided Lenovo Thinkpad (on which I would have run RedHat) or a MacBook (on which I would have left OS X, unlike some associates I know), I jumped on the MacBook. I loved it. First thing I had to fix, though, was putting the Terminal icon in the nav bar. It works fine with a multi-button mouse, you just can't get one from the manufacturer. As for the weird window manager, I just used it to keep track of a couple of browser windows and a thick stack of terminal sessions. I don't care what color or shape the widgets are - I just need to close windows, move windows, and open more terminal sessions. Nearly everything else is irrelevant. Oh... and to tie in the recent thread on X, I left that MacBook in my room (this was at the South Pole where we had individual LAN drops for a personal computer and a VOiP phone) and used it from all over station by firing up xterms and occasionally browser windows. I _did_ run a session back to North America once or twice, but the bandwidth and latency (via satellite, sharing a 1Mbps link with everyone else) made that largely impractical. So I'm an atypical user, but there's nothing like a thin (or really long) pipe to make you reconsider fighting with a remote session that slings swaths of pixels around - I find character-based remote access protocols more appealing and productive. -ethan