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Article #1327Re: Cool jobs at a cool company.
From: BLarg!
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 00:00
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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 > Hehehe, sure. Microsoft can't keep up no matter what. Infact I usually see stable drivers for Linux up and running before the bugs are called out of the next MS release or whatever. And, yes, many games have been ported to Linux. It's not to terribly hard to. And it's not like you're paying for it either (unless you buy Red Hat, even then you get lots of software for dirt cheap). Linux is great my friend (even tho my modem doesn't work in it =(. -- BLarg!
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