From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a073fa836a03b290 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-14 07:20:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ? Date: 14 May 2002 07:20:45 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0205140620.56f11574@posting.google.com> References: <3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net> <5ee5b646.0205030057.7cb47a2d@posting.google.com> <3CDD3699.2090809@qwest.net> <4519e058.0205130633.478cc872@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021386045 13215 127.0.0.1 (14 May 2002 14:20:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 May 2002 14:20:45 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24019 Date: 2002-05-14T14:20:45+00:00 List-Id: James Ross wrote in message news:... > 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)