From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett Person) Subject: Re: NeXTStep & Linux Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 20:26:37 GMT
In article <rlion.747157536@access> rlion@access.digex.net (crazy lion) writes:
>martini@tournesol.hep.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Ullrich Martini) writes:
>
>>hi,
>
>>we here a lot about running ms-windows apps on linux boxes, but there are
>>much better user interfaces than windows, for example NeXT Step. this is
>>why i am wondering if there are any activities to build a next-linux
>>interface like wabi.
>>maybe it would be sufficient to have a source-code compatibility. is it true
>>that the objective-c compiler used by next is available and ported to linux?
>>(heard something like that)
>
>>bye, ullrich
>
>nextssetp is, in my opinion the best OS there is. but it's hardware
>requirements are just too great for intel. you'd have to have a fully
>loaded comupter to even get one program running. so i doubt that anyoe
>would spend all the time it owuld take to write it when few could benefit..
>
>
Huh? I'd say it would be worth it! What do ya mean 'too great for Intel'?
Ever hear of the white hardware? All the white hardware I've seen has been
Intel bassed and I hear it runs pretty well.
I don't think the original poster meant that we should write NextStep for
Linux, but rather a shell around X that looked like NS. Maybe call it NxS.
I'd be happy with the ability to do drag and drop in a file manager. Come to
think of it, I'd like a file manager.
Having something that looked like NS would really boost the usability of
Linux A LOT.
Someone wanna work on this with me?
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