From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 23:02:31 GMT
muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
>On Tue, 6 Jul 1993 01:02:06 GMT, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) said:
> RK> I take it that you haven't seen any commercial Unix systems
> RK> newer than 1985 or so. I like Linux, but it is only a subset of
> RK> what is shipped with UNIX today on commercial systems. SCO ODT
> RK> 3.0, Solaris 2.1 for x86, and Univel Unixware all come with X11
> RK> that supports literally every card and monitor on the
Do they support as many frequency/resolution combinations?
How about xbench results? Hey, make sure you don't get X11R4.
(I suppose they dont ship X11R3 any longer :-)
>Some support more HW, but some less. Linux isn't that bad, it supports
>quite a lot.
Best thing since sliced bread is software with source code.
It took at least half a year before Interactive fixed an
bug in their C compiler. Values on the 387 stack were
switched so 1.1 < 2.2 was FALSE. Quite annoying in a
spreadsheet. I had to pay for the new release with the fix.
Linux bugs are usualy fixed before I discover them.
> RK> Try to find a secretary who uses emacs and TeX for word
> RK> processing.
Does it count when they use emacs in vi-mode and Latex?
> RK> Try to find a beancounter who is willing to use SC for
> RK> spreadsheets.
No beancounters here, but secretaries that like sc.
Wait till they get xspread.
>That is one of the things you have to wait another year for: people
>are working on running SVR4 binaries on Linux, then all these
>commercial applications run on linux too.
I would prefer no binary compatibility.
There would be more incentive to develop free
software for Linux.