🚀 go-pugleaf

Ken wrote:
> 
> Matthew Vernon wrote:
> 
> > an alternative is available, and it is: GNU/Linux.
> > you can have a powerful text console, which supports redirects &c. (unlike
> > DOS 7), is very stable (look at pick's uptime), and the GUI (X windows)
> > like the rest of the system is extremely configurable (see enlightenment
> > for example).
> >
> > Therefore W9* deserves no slack whatsover, and you won't find it
> > cluttering up my systems.
> >
> > SWITCH NOASBESTOS
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Matthew
> 
> Ok ! Next question your reply leads us to is how many of the literaly
> thousands of programs available for W95 have been ported to run under
> GNU/Linux. Fortunatly POV-Ray has been but are there any others
> of it's type that have been ? I also believe, and I might be mistaken,
> that I heard linux is a freeware operating system. If this is the case there
> is no commercial support for it and the creators of the program are
> under no obligation to either support it or develop it any further than
> they have already. What happens when the technology of computors
> change and your current computer harware dies/becomes obsolete,
> who do you think is going to be in a better position to keep up with
> these changes. MicroSoft or the linux developers ? Don't get me wrong
> here as I am not trying to start a flame war, it's just that I believe even
> with the drawbacks of the MS OS the overwhelmingly availability
> of software and number of end users, climbing on a different bus at
> this time seems a little reckless.
> 
> Ken

haha.

expect flame !

Regards
Hans-Willi Raedt