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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!towncrier.osf.org!not-for-mail From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@osf.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 17:34:19 -0500 Organization: The Open Group Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dev-sgi.osf.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156278 comp.os.linux.networking:67331 comp.os.linux.setup:95584 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5876 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2260 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51949 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265809 bill davidsen wrote: > > In article <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: > > | What would make Unix' future? Scott MacNeily can whine about > | Microsoft desktops wasting monumental amounts of admin time and > | energy if he likes, but unix will die without applications. > > UNIX doesn't have applications. Unix doesn't have applications??? What are you talking about? Do you mean Linux doesn't have any applications? The Open Systems Software Directory lists nearly 10,000 applications. Sun's Catalyst catalog lists over 12,000 applications. There's plenty of applications for Unix.