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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a073fa836a03b290 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-13 20:52:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr12.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: James Ross Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ? Message-ID: References: <3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net> <5ee5b646.0205030057.7cb47a2d@posting.google.com> <3CDD3699.2090809@qwest.net> <4519e058.0205130633.478cc872@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.65.182.127 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr12.news.prodigy.com 1021348265 ST000 65.65.182.127 (Mon, 13 May 2002 23:51:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:51:05 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: SCSYQN_@FS@GRV@[_H]D]_HBWB]^PCPDLXUNNHPIMASJETAANVW[AKWZE\]^XQWIGNE_[EBL@^_\^JOCQ^RSNVLGTFTKHTXHHP[NB\_C@\SD@EP_[KCXX__AGDDEKGFNB\ZOKLRNCY_CGG[RHT_UN@C_BSY\G__IJIX_PLSA[CCFAULEY\FL\VLGANTQQ]FN Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 03:51:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23992 Date: 2002-05-14T03:51:05+00:00 List-Id: 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