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From: jason@verdi.jlc.net (Jason T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 3 Apr 1997 00:20:37 GMT
Organization: John Leslie Consulting
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In article <3344cd56.1499074@news.sprynet.com>, Goatboy wrote:
>Are you saying it's tolerable to run afterstep remotely on a 28.8?

Why are you running a window manager over a modem? Why not run a
window manager locally?

>That's why they buy apps like Borland C++ or Visual Basic which are
>leaps and bounds better than GCC for development.

Okay, free clue time: gcc isn't a development environment. It's a
*compiler*.

>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.

Please tell me where I can obtain the source code to Windows95/NT so
I may make a change to the way it functions in the same way I can
change the functionality of the FreeBSD kernel (or Linux, for that
matter).

--
Jason T. Nelson <jason@jlc.net>
http://www.jlc.net/~jason/
disclaimer: My opinions are my own. Don't bother my employer about them.