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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!info.curtin.edu.au!newsmaster From: Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@curtin.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 03:14:47 -0700 Organization: Curtin University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3170D017.72B7@curtin.edu.au> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <316ECE94.61162F47@dark.mountain.stronghold> <4kntvi$hmm@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra7.curtin.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21228 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:554 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3145 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2944 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17196 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45086 Sam E. Trenholme wrote: > ... snip ... > > I hope to have the oppertunity to see the usability of Unix with a > non-technical user again next week. This user only uses the application > Netscape to connect to their ISP, so they can surf the 'net. I would > like to configure Slackware and X (Sorry Jordan, FreeBSD is very good, > but I know Linux better) on her system, and compare her experience of > using Netscpae on an X system to using it on Windows. > Mmm. Does Netscrape still freeze the keyboard occasionally? And there's also that BS/DEL thing... Good luck. :) Dimitri