SPARC Live CD?

[Tom Buskey]

On 12/21/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> > ... gzip or bzip2.  And since both are gnu tools, I wouldn't expect
> > them on a non-gnu system ...
>
>   The point you seem to be missing, Paul, is that if one has spent
> forever working on "GNU systems", and is then suddenly put on to a
> "non-GNU system", then suddenly, all the options, syntax, features,
> etc., one has been using forever suddenly stop working.
>
>   Yes, one can adapt, but the *point* is that one's efficiency is
> seriously hampered, to the point of excruciating frustration.
>
>   I once sat down at a computer that had a funky keyboard.  What
> should have been the space bar was split into two smaller bars.  The
> left bar was the space key, as normal.  The right bar was an extra
> backspace key.
>
>   Have yoever trietyping wheevery othespace turninto backspace?
>
>   (Have you ever tried typing when every other space turns into a backspace?)
>
>   Sure, I knew *exactly* what to do to work around this issue.  All I
> had to do was only type space with my left thumb.  Easy, right?  But
> I've been typing on QWERTY keyboards since I was six years old!

I switch between my PC at my desk, lab PCs, Sun, work laptop, home
laptop and Macintosh.  The ~ key is in a different location on every
keyboard.  The lab PCs have swapped around the keys above the cursor
keys.  Worst of all, the Sun has a blank key where a PC has the esc
key and the esc to the left of the 1 key.  And the control key/caps
lock swapped from the PC.  I'm always getting a beep instead of esc or
capitals instead of control characters....