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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: 29 May 1994 17:45:42 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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In article <2sao1v$guc@acmey.gatech.edu>,
Robert Sanders <gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>You know where I'd really like to see a coherent development effort?  I'd
>like to see some good people get together and write a Unix word processor.
>More so than the many competing flavors, that issue is killing Unix.
>FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux are all very competent operating systems,
>but you've got to give people something to *do* under them.

No, no, no!

"We alrreddy gots wahn.  Eez verry naaz."

(apologies to Monty Python, of course. :-)

Doesn't Andrew run under both Linux and *BSD now?  I know that at some point
recently it worked under NetBSD.

Andrew ez is about as nice a word-processor, multimedia editor, and so
following as I could ever wish for.  And it outputs easily hand-hackable
troff, unlike some other packages I can think of...
-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                           tls@panix.COM
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
  objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
  plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud