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> Unix is not a new technology.
...but it's evolving
> Linux is just a free rewrite of the Unix system.
no
> Where are the application packages for Linux? They are
> mostly a pile of student written science fair experiments
> scattered on a large number of obscure web site. So you
> can download the source to LaTex. Who cares? People buy
...then simply shut up and write your technical docs with w0rd and tell
me what happens if you hit the magic 400 page limit and look at your
index, footnotes and the bibliography. LOL
> computers to run applications. They don't buy computers
> to run compilers, although Microsoft does make better
> compilers for x86 than GNU.
like everything else in the computing world this is a matter of flavour.
peppermint or spearmint? it's up to you... i stick to spearmint (gcc)
since it runs on every system i do my work on (free/net/openbsd, irix,
aix, slowlaris, linux, cygwin32) and creates code for virtually every
platform i had contact with (refer to my web page).
> MSDN is a better development environment than GNU,
gcc has no IDE... try codewarrior.
> Better software tools create better software.
better programmers/engineers create better software.
the better those folks are the better are the tools they select
> People don't care how well an operating system works if
> there are no useful applications.
opposed to windoze internet intrusion server[tm] you can get a free high
performance web server on unix platforms (apache). no i don't want to
hear "but there's apache for win32" -- it plainly sucks.
> So how is Richard Stallman doing with his Hurd Operating
> system?
dunno? play nethack? it's perfectly portable onto a variety of
platforms, but it doesn't compile with msvc. guess why.
> The entire GNU-Linux system is nothing more than a
> science fair experiment run by various techno-geeks. As a
> science fair experiment GNU-Linux has its uses.
neat that there are bsd copyright notices all over the place in both
win32 and gnu/linux header files, eh?
> I have looked very deeply into both systems and Microsoft
> has the better system.
hopefully this is kept a trade secret ;-)
if the mass of people on the net would find out, microsoft would still
exist for the next few decades... pfff...
/k
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