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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!shell2.ba.best.com!vss From: vss@shell2.ba.best.com (V.S. Senthilkumar) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Date: 6 Feb 1997 01:06:06 GMT Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> Reply-To: vss@best.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shell2.ba.best.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156077 comp.os.linux.networking:67230 comp.os.linux.setup:95415 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5860 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2230 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51846 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265569 Kaleb S. KEITHLEY (kaleb@osf.org) wrote: : bill davidsen wrote: : > : > In article <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: : > : > | What would make Unix' future? Scott MacNeily can whine about : > | Microsoft desktops wasting monumental amounts of admin time and : > | energy if he likes, but unix will die without applications. : > : > UNIX doesn't have applications. : Unix doesn't have applications??? What are you talking about? : Do you mean Linux doesn't have any applications? : The Open Systems Software Directory lists nearly 10,000 applications. : Sun's Catalyst catalog lists over 12,000 applications. : There's plenty of applications for Unix. Tell me a cheap and good word processing application for unix? -vs senthilkumar