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Re: Linux Functionality?



On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 00:44 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Sunday 26 December 2004 12:01 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 16:46 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:33:50PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
[snip]
>  Just a nit pick but it is not Windows that does anything better than 
> *nix. In fact as an OS *nix is much better,(security comes to mind, 
> open source/API's available in Linux), this doesn't mean that windows 
> is better, it means a third party software vendor ported their app to 
> Win32 not Linux. Don't confuse the OS with applications that run on the 
> OS.

Point well taken.  But, since we don't use Operating Systems, we
use applications, it doesn't matter how good the OS is, if many
important apps only exist for less-capable OSs. :(

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