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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!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!coop.net!world!mv!news.Destek.Net!mozart.jlc.net!jason 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 Message-ID: <slrn5k5u4d.ics.jason@verdi.jlc.net> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <333cddd8.1017100@news.sprynet.com> <slrn5jm1c6.foh.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <3344cd56.1499074@news.sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: verdi.jlc.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.1 BETA UNIX) Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19750 comp.os.linux.misc:167900 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38409 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.