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

[James Ross <rem.jr@rem.webross.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?). 

>As long as Windows is *the*
>gaming OS, I'm a Windows user. :-(

Windows is the best consumer available OS period. And it will remain
so for a long time. The only one that ever came close was Apple years
ago� but Jobs screwed it up by pushing the Mac instead of the II
series.  Other mentionables that had their chance was IBM, Commodore,
& Tandy. 

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.
JR