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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2sb2e6$bqs@panix2.panix.com> References: <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <2s937t$7sp@acmex.gatech.edu> <JKH.94May29093959@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2sao1v$guc@acmey.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com 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