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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!newsstand.tc.umn.edu!prometheus.chem.umn.edu!korobka From: korobka@prometheus.chem.umn.edu (Alex Korobka) 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: 19 Apr 1996 07:28:33 GMT Organization: University of Minnesota Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4l7fb1$jl4@epx.cis.umn.edu> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <4l2fl2$7hk@sidhe.memra.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: prometheus.chem.umn.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21922 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:740 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3382 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3223 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17815 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46539 Michael Dillon (michael@memra.com) wrote: : In article <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com>, : Russell Nelson <nelson@ns.crynwr.com> wrote: : >If they could buy a computer with Linux and (a fully functional) Wine : >installed, they would use it with no hesitation. : > : >In order to create a market for Linux, we need to say, and say again, : >that Linux is THE ONLY RELIABLE 32-bit desktop operating system. The : >only other choices simply are not up to the task. : But it's not. FreeBSD and NetBSD are also reliable 32-bit desktop : OSes as is OS/2. And WINE is anything but reliable and my personal : opinion from several years of reading Microsoft Systems Journal and 2 : years of watching the WINE project is that WINE will never be a reliable : and fully compatible Windows execution environment I can only wonder how may people did just that - read up on Windows API and compile Wine to see how it compares. Talk about missed opportunities. Alex