Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-07 Thread Martoni
On Apr 7, 2005 5:17 AM, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:3. the friendliness and willingness of the users and this type ofmailing list.Not to disappoint you, but my experience is that the Gentoo community is above and beyond the rest (I know of, RH/Mandrake/Linux general ng's) in friendliness,

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Martoni wrote: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing else, including the kernel, would exist. There is really only one app I couldn't live without whether I am running Windows or Linux, and that is VMWare.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:57:39 +0200 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Martoni wrote: | What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at | all)? | | | This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing else, including the | kernel, would exist. egcs -- Ciaran McCreesh :

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Alan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:01:44AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:57:39 +0200 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Martoni wrote: | What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at | all)? | | | This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Robert Persson
On April 5, 2005 09:27 pm, quoth Martoni: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? A unlikely candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door live in my study to play Battle for Wesnoth on *my* computer (rather than The Hobbit on my sons Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:27:16AM +0200, Martoni wrote: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? A unlikely candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door live in my study to play Battle for Wesnoth on *my* computer (rather than The Hobbit

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Martoni
On Apr 6, 2005 11:10 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:27:16AM +0200, Martoni wrote: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? A unlikely candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door live in my study to play

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 06:27, Martoni wrote: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? the gimp, it kills harddisk space, cpu cycles, and the nerves of the person trying to use it. A real killer. If you mean 'killer app' in a positive sense, I would vote

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Covington, Chris
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Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
I prefer to think of killer features, so my vote is for the following: 1. the GPL - it means we can see the source and fix it if necessary (well I can't but the smarter cookies can and are usually prepared to help) 2. the plain text configuration file, for similar reasons. 3. the friendliness