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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!chsun!news.eunet.ch!usenet From: Tim Tassonis <timtas@webshuttle.ch> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 22:12:28 +0200 Organization: EUnet AG Message-ID: <334560AC.33476876@webshuttle.ch> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyna-wt-56.dial.eunet.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i486) Lines: 30 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19806 comp.os.linux.misc:168085 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38493 Goatboy wrote: > > 1) I could care less about Java. It's slow, inefficient, and all hype > and no content. I hope it does just like beta. Are you talking about java or NT now? > 2) MS has made computing easier. To install a prog in win95, u insert > the cd, and the install prog runs. With Linux, u switch to the cd, run > some make commands, puts various files in various dirs, edit lots of > config files written in greek, and on and on... Gee, which is easier? No, no it's not that easy. First, you need a disk editor... Your idea of Linux/Unix is about as accurate and up to date as Bill Gates' . But then you lots have to think all the same don't you. > > >Of all the OS's I've seen, the most elegant and easiest to use had to > >be Nextstep. Others are only now starting to catch up. > > Why then was it a mass market failure? And if it's so great, why > aren't u using it? And is it as free as linux? Don't think so. > bla bla It was a market failure because it was by court rule (or contract or whatever) not allowed to be Macintosh compatible. Otherwise probably the whole Macintosh market would have swapped over to nextstep. But you sure all know that just by being as clever as you are. Tim