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#! rnews 4269 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: Bryan Seigneur <freds@gramercy.ios.com> 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: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:08:50 -0400 Organization: SONETECH, Inc. Lines: 65 Message-ID: <317C9012.26C59A60@gramercy.ios.com> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <m3ohoqoln2.fsf@smia.ambolt.no> <4l5rbr$1eam@news.missouri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-26.ts-4.dc.idt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.20 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22264 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:828 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3496 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3347 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18091 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47016 Justin Rhys Thuryn McNutt wrote: > > Asgeir Nilsen (ambolt@stud.ntnu.no) wrote: > : In article <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu > : (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) writes: > > : > Some people will say, "But there's more to it than just a word > : > processor!" Really? I have to take off my shoes and my friend's gloves > : > so that I can count the number of people that I know personally who only > : > use their computers for word processing. Their stupid little PC boots, > : > loads Win[3.1|95|NT], and MS Word is in the Startup group. It runs right > : > away, and that's all they ever use it for. > > : You forget one big element that a LOT of people want. GAMES. Will > : DOSEMU ever be powerful enough? > > : Sure, people could have a DOS partition lying around, rebooting each > : time you feel like trying the hottest, coolest whatever. But > : rebooting all the time is ``too much work'' for a lot of people.. > > You have a point there, but I think one of my roommates got DOSEmu to > successfully run Doom II. I'll have to check. Look it up! Look things up before you give Linux the bad end of the doubt! DOSEmu is running Doom, Doom2, Descent, Rise of the Triad, etc, etc, etc. Never underestimate the power of Linux, (unless you're MS, in that case, just ignore Linux, just a bunch of hobbyists, that's all we are, no need to worry about us hurting your sales, no sir, not us (chuckle)). > This is a valid concern, though, not just because games are important to > a lot of computer users, but because if DOSEmu can run some of today's > popular games, it can run just about anything! Don't speculate unless you can't find definite answers on the net! You risk spreading viscious FUD if you don't. Geesh, it's so easy. If you're really that interested, it's easy. Educate thyself! Contact actual developers if you need to, it's not like they try to remain anonymous or something. I'm beginning to think many of the posters in this thread are seriously hypertext-impaired. Information on Linux is generally easy to find. Try browsing all the stuff you get when you do a search for 'Linux' in Yahoo when you have an hour or two (or eight). You could seriously teach a comprehensive course on a lot of subjects using just the net as a text, and Linux would be at the top of that list. Pant..pant...Excuse me while I take my Zoloft, now ;] This isn't about you as much as it's a result of me having to wade thru the past paragraphs and paragraphs of FUD in this thread in general. New acronym: STFN Search TF Net. > -------- > If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. > > Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux > Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html > > rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu Bryan -- __ _ / / (_)__ __ __ _ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /| |/ / /____/_/_//_/\___//_/|_|...priceless.