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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: JAVA and FreeBSD 2.1
Date: 4 Mar 1997 02:58:39 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable James L Fox
wrote on 25 Feb (in article <5evqvu$j12@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>):
=How is JDK 1.0.2 performing under FreeBSD 2.2?
I am doing my class homeworks with it. Works fine. You have a choice
of two java-machines (kaffe, and Sun's java), SpecJAVA GUI builder,
power of BSD.
=Could someone give me a pep talk to convince me that I should keep
=arguing to run FreeBSD vs NT! or Solaris on our new P6's? :-)
=The NT supporters offer eXeed or Xappeal on NT as a window to the
=centralized Solaris machines available at this site.
The main disadvantage of Unix for those "NT supporters" is that
they could not use it (see .signature). There is _nothing_ you can not
do with a decent Unix, while NT limits and slows you down in
everything ("Press Ok to reboot your computer"). That's practical.
Now, for moral values, paying for Microsoft software products is
just plain shamefull. (The company that brought you Windows, ignored
Internet for years, ripped off Stacker and others, you name it)
-mi
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"Windows for dummies"