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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!prism!prism!not-for-mail From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 29 May 1994 19:10:42 -0400 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 39 Sender: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu Message-ID: <2sb7di$7ih@acmez.gatech.edu> References: <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <2s937t$7sp@acmex.gatech.edu> <JKH.94May29093959@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2sao1v$guc@acmey.gatech.edu> <2sb2e6$bqs@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: acmez.gatech.edu tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes: >In article <2sao1v$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. >"We alrreddy gots wahn. Eez verry naaz." >Doesn't Andrew run under both Linux and *BSD now? I know that at some point >recently it worked under NetBSD. Andrew works under Linux. In fact, someone has starting breaking up the Andrew system into bite-sized pieces, one of which is intended specifically for word processing. >Andrew ez is about as nice a word-processor, multimedia editor, and so >following as I could ever wish for. Well, despite your quote, a WP is not a grail. There are lots of different solutions, and I'm afraid most DOS/Windows users want something that has the overall feel and layout of Microsoft Word. ez is not that. >And it outputs easily hand-hackable >troff, unlike some other packages I can think of... So its output capabilities are limited to those of troff? How unappealing. I use Emacs/LaTeX myself, so I'm absolutely 100% unmotivated to get involved in this project. It's just a vacuum that I abhor. -- _g, '96 --->>>>>>>>>> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu <<<<<<<<<--- CompSci ,g_ W@@@W__ |-\ ^ | disclaimer: <---> "Bow before ZOD!" __W@@@W W@@@@**~~~' ro|-<ert s/_\ nders | who am I??? ^ from Superman '~~~**@@@@W `*MV' hi,ocie! |-/ad! / \ss!! | ooga ooga!! | II (cool)! `VW*'