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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!thinman From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) Subject: Re: Various X-apps for *BSD? Message-ID: <thinmanCDB91y.GKw@netcom.com> Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom References: <26mevq$914@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 21:01:10 GMT Lines: 27 johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) writes: >Hi: >Let's say I got the crazy idea that I wanted to change over all my DOS users >who have 486 machines with plenty of RAM and disk and S3 display cards to >*BSD and X (from DOS stuff). What, if anything, (free) is out there for X word >processors, spreadsheets, drawing/layout, database management? Nothing that's anywhere near as good as DOS. If you want to make their lives better, dump the boxes and get Macs. Sorry, but it's the truth. Unix has lost the end-user race. (i.e. there is no "Video For Unix" multimedia architecture, and never will be.) It's a great development system, and that's what it was designed to be. I don't use, I develop. That's why I still put up with it. When I can compile and test a program without crashing a Mac, I'll dump this Unix junk. Put down that F key; I've been a Unix hack since '79 and am quite qualified to say the above. -- Lance Norskog thinman@netcom.com Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.