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Nicholas Sturm wrote: | Dear | |>Madeline Brubaker: | | | Please excuse the nuts around here that seem to be as much of a | problem as Apple lovers once were.
Ooh! Ooh! I smell a rant!
Please excuse my response to being called a nut.
| I don't particularly like some of Window's creations, but even though | Linus "releases" are getting slowly more usable for ordinary people, | they still do not have enough clones of the most desirable applictions
Name some you'd miss. I'll bet money that there are "enough clones". As sarcastic and annoyed as I sound, I'm usually a nice person, and I promise I'll find an option that works.
And do remember what Linus is releasing. Linus releases the kernel. The windows equivalent can probably be found somewhere like C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\KERNEL.DLL. Go tell me how useful for ordenary people that file strikes you.
Or do you mean the applications that run on top of Linux? I guess that's a pretty safe assumption. But Linus didn't touch those, and most run as easily on BSD, Solaris, OS X, and even Windows.
| to make them useful to most of us that are not just playing with | computers.
My turn for a one-sided rant. I hope I seem a bit more informed.
I suppose my parents are not ordinary people. Maybe my brother isn't ordinary either. Or my boss. And yet, they all have the unusual ability to use a Linux computer without "just playing" with it.
Oh, and let's not forget: Apache was developed on Linux, and later ported to Windows. Apache is the most popular web server on the planet. ~ But I guess "ordinary people" never run their own web sites.
What about Sendmail? Admittedly, I don't use it -- I use qmail, one of 3 or 4 MTA options for Linux. Sendmail is, however, the most popular MTA, period. But "ordinary people" obviously don't run mail servers. The mere thought!
Ooh, and let's not forget the things that have been done better. Do "ordinary people" chat, or do instant messaging? I have gaim, a very small, very fast program that does 4-5 different IM protocols in one program, sharing one buddy list.
And, of course, "ordinary people" might want to write code for pay. Or play games. Or surf the Internet. Or send email. I can do all that on Linux.
And by the way, how many "ordinary people" use Freenet?
As an honest question, what is it that you "ordinary people" can't do on Linux? Or OS X? Or BSD?
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