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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d4aba2022b03306e X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,d4aba2022b03306e X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d4aba2022b03306e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,d4aba2022b03306e X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,d4aba2022b03306e X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,d4aba2022b03306e X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: Jose Miguel Perez Subject: Re: Best way to kill Microsoft (Re: M$ to STRIKE again...) Date: 1997/04/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 235781721 References: <33489A15.453C@ix.netcom.com> <01bc433c$e5109820$230228ce@default> <5j6egs$aof@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <33570AB4.74055D18@uniserve.com> <5j7gpj$4nc$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> <33579F6F.CAC@student.csi.cuny.edu> Organization: Purdue University Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Well, there is no big company behind Linux, but if you know where to ask you can find lots of support, and I mean a really good one. (Most of these guys are hackers -in the good sense- that one way or another get to solve the problem) I don't think however Linux will be a main stream system like Windows. I think it will be a waste of time to have a home computer, say, with Linux. But for a cheap workstation may be a good choice. It's a pity big companies are not producing software for Linux. (there are exceptions, of course, like Netscape and others). This might change though as Java gets better (I mean, with the awt and jni you can create internet ready gui interfaces independently -more or less- of the platform. You can write the core of your programs in whatever language you like -provided c wrappers-). On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, M A wrote: > Will L Unix (X Windows) ever become the main stream like Windows. If > this god damn thing is free how come nobody supports it. > > Emilio Lopes wrote: > > > > Da Borg (vla_di_mip@uniserve.com) wrote: > > : Sure. You can d-load it freely but I doubt you want to pump > > : over 500MB of programs through your phone line. Better > > : check your local CDROM/multimedia store or order directly. > > : Some sites to visit: > > : > > : http://www.linux.org/ > > : http://www.redhat.com/ (<- my favourite distribution) > > : http://www.debian.org/ > > : http://www.linuxnow.com/ > > : > > : It doesn't really recognize some "Plug&Pray" crap by default > > : so choose hardware wisely. Runs on anything from Amigas and > > : 386SX with 2MB of RAM to Dec Alphas, SparkStations and > > : PPro's. Full source code, SysV/BSD extensions, tons of > > : development-related software. > > > > It runs also in a Sparc-based Fujitsu Super-Computer! > > > > -- > > Emilio C. Lopes > >