Re: Not a Desltop OS (was: RE: thanks, but no thanks)

1998-03-27 Thread John E. Pearson
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote: [...] Linux is NOT in competition with anything MS produces. Huh? Since when? What, then, *is* Linux competing with? What niche market does Linux serve without competition? Many many scientists are rather fond of linux and much less so of anything

g++, gcc, fort77, g77 and so on

1998-03-26 Thread John E. Pearson
I have seen several versions of this problem posted on the web. Since the answers were wrong I thought that I would correct them. This particular version was posted by Perry Lee Anthony on Friday May 2, 1997 to the redhat archive. "I have a program that is made up of mostly "c" modules, a few