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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!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ais.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.sprynet.com!not-for-mail From: lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:28:04 GMT Organization: Sprynet News Service Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3344cd56.1499074@news.sprynet.com> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <333cddd8.1017100@news.sprynet.com> <slrn5jm1c6.foh.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: hd12-124.hil.compuserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19675 comp.os.linux.misc:167647 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38308 >People has been using remote shells over 9600 bauds for decades (on vt100s). >Actually, the speed of my local console is still set to 9600! (I don't >know if that does something, anyway) >Remote shells over a 28.8 are very useful. Are you saying it's tolerable to run afterstep remotely on a 28.8? >I like djgpp. It's gcc, yes, but it's *not* the same thing as gcc on Linux. >On djgpp you have no fork, no multithreading, no IPC... >And you can't use DDD to debug it, which is a sin :-) That's why they buy apps like Borland C++ or Visual Basic which are leaps and bounds better than GCC for development. >You can change OS, but you can't change *the OS*. It's MS property! You can change it. And if u want to distribute ur change, you make a patch. You just can't resell the OS with ur changes. U can do that with Linux, but who'd want to dl an entire OS just to get ur change. That's why u make the patch. And guess what? U can do that with win95 or NT also.