Re: [OT] Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

James Ross <rem.jr@rem.webross.com> wrote in message news:<gbu0euoblrr1vmeb21tiarhmv4aqqih7lv@4ax.com>...
> On 13 May 2002 07:33:44 -0700, Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> >I can live w/o MSOffice. 
> 
> Most people can't :(  Even if assuming you have seamless networking
> between your home and work, you still have to deal with file
> conversion (and isn't that a faulty process?).

I'd like to see numbers on that. I think "most people" can get by just
fine without any computer at all at home. Certianly almost everyone I
know in RL could do without theirs. I'll buy that there is a small but
important *minority* of folks out there that feel like they need to
take work home, and whose work involves producing Office-type
documents. But I'd suspect most of them could even make do just fine
with StarOffice or OpenOffice, if they stick to portable features and
file formats (or just use OpenOffice at work to do their printouts).

> Windows is the best consumer available OS period. And it will remain

I'm not sure what is meant by "consumer available OS". I do think that
the NT-kernel Windows variants are a lot better OS's than most people
give them credit for. All those years of Win3.1 and 9x series (which
were really completely different OS's with some compatabilies) gave it
a bad name that will be tough to live down.

> My prediction is that Linux will *never* be consumer grade because of
> lack of standards and ease of use. The mentality that the primary
> interface is the command line and the only way to really install
> something is to ./configure will prevail on Linux for years to come.

That I don't know about. Linux is worlds better in this regard than it
was 6 years ago when I first heard of it. NT (3.51) at the time was a
bit worse than today, but not immensely. I wouldn't be so bold as to
predict that the relative pace of improvement between these two OS's
is suddenly going to change. Perhaps it will, but I see no obvious
reason why it would, and no signs of it starting to do so.


-- 
T.E.D. 
Home     -  mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison)
Homepage -  http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html (down)