mark@uunix.com wrote:
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> UNLESS WE ARE ALL WAITING FOR LINUX??????????
>
> Now read the history of UNIX and it's the same of LINUX.
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> To many manufactorers producing slightly different versions..

I use FreeBSD almost religously on everything (workstations, servers,
multimedia boxes, etc), but my wife's and kids' machines are running
Ubuntu. If i want to view a web page with flash i her's because flash
is just plain broken in FreeBSD (ok.. you can use Linux binary
compatability and the linux plugin and/or the linux plugin wrapper...
PITA IMHO).
If there isn't a plugin installed on her machine that's needed
(haven't seen it yet) you just clickety click click and it's installed.
My wife and, of course, my kids (2 and 1yr) are not power users and
therefore use an easy, user friendly Linux distro. On the the other
hand I have specific requirements that are fulfilled much easier with
FreeBSD, Slackware, and Gentoo (Solaris is simply a learning experience).
What its going to take are more big guns like IBM and HP getting
behind 1 or 2 Linux distros for the desktop market. What's good for
GNU/Linux, arguably, is going to be good for the rest of UN*X. I see so
many things from GNU/Linux that have been ported to FreeBSD, BeOS, and
Solaris.
Now, if they'd only standardize a little...
The world will always need Windows and Mac for those that can't type
and those that can't opperate more than 1 button at a time respectively.

my $.02
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