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Article #1461Re: Dream OS = Linux
From: Jim Williams
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:51
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:51
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cardinal@swcp.com (Carlos Carbajal) wrote: > >Linux is great: for an educational experience. It is not >user-friendly. But everyone is missing the point of OS wars: apps >determine the success of an OS. Right now this is why DOS/WIN is in >the lead. Linux versions of Word, Excel, Notes, Photoshop, CorelDraw >are unlikely for now. > You seem to have different application needs than I do. I need: a good Web server, a good mailserver, a good news server, etc.. I don't need a good display server (which DOS/WIN isn't anyway). -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX! Microsoft is prohibited from examining any packet containing data originating on any machine which I am using. (Not that I can stop them.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux Date: 22 Aug 1995 13:51:55 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Message-ID: <41cndr$86h@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3uhptl$1jdt@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>,<3v6kj3$q1l@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <dblakey-1008951144220001@dblakey.wat.hookup.net> <40l9d9$8i1@news.ios.com> <40lplj$qi5@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <40mknh$r77@news.infoserve.net> <41bp9a$2lj@sloth.swcp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)