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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!world!mv!news.missouri.edu!vortex.cc.missouri.edu!rhys From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: 16 Apr 1996 23:15:13 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4l19m1$12qu@news.missouri.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <316ECE94.61162F47@dark.mountain.stronghold> <4kntvi$hmm@agate.berkeley.edu> <3170D017.72B7@curtin.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: vortex.cc.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21649 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:654 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3279 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3112 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17576 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46067 Dimitri Maziuk (emaziuk@curtin.edu.au) wrote: : Sam E. Trenholme wrote: : > ... snip ... : > : > I hope to have the oppertunity to see the usability of Unix with a : > non-technical user again next week. This user only uses the application : > Netscape to connect to their ISP, so they can surf the 'net. I would : > like to configure Slackware and X (Sorry Jordan, FreeBSD is very good, : > but I know Linux better) on her system, and compare her experience of : > using Netscpae on an X system to using it on Windows. : Mmm. Does Netscrape still freeze the keyboard occasionally? And there's : also that BS/DEL thing... That "BS/DEL" thing is a Motif thing, not just a Nutscrape thing. -------- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu