🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 07 Sep 1998 03:58:37 -0700, Ken <tylereng@pacbell.net> wrote:

>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 ?
There are much more Applications runing under Linux and if you are
short of money you can get many solutions for free (without evalution
or shareware licenses). If you are running POV-Ray on Linux, you are a
lucky guy, because Linux doesn't eat your systemresources like
Microsoft Windows does and it nearly runs twice as fast as under
Windows XX.

> I also believe, and I might be mistaken,
>that I heard linux is a freeware operating system. 
Right, you can download and use it for free.

>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.
Commercial support exists for some office-packs and the kde desktop.
But the most Software is free and even if the creators don't have to
maintain and update their Software they do and if they don't, others
do.

>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 ?
Hmm... Linux runs on PowerPC Systems as well as on Alpha, Intel 386,
AS400, Silicon Graphics, even on Motorolla 68000 based Systems. Linux
supports Hardware that Microsoft even know about and there are lots of
Companys that slowly start to support Linux. Microsoft OS just run on
Intel and on AlphaPCs through an emulator, at least you can run
Microsoft OS on any System that runs Linux by simply run the Microsoft
OS through a linux-i386 shell *giggle*

>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.
Of all my NT-Servers I used in the past I just kept a single
98/NT-Workstation for playing Games and running 3DS-Max on it. Since I
got my Maya/OS2 - Workstation I don't even need NT for 3DS-Max and
will not longer waste a $1500.- machine for games that run on a $150
Sony Playstation as well.

Greetings
Little