From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 8 3:38:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2549314F85 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 03:38:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p13-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.132.6.142]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id TAA08540; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:37:54 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37FD8964.54EB9E5B@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 15:04:20 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kenneth Henry Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An article from Microsoft References: <19991008002631.8A2BF153BE@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Kenneth Henry wrote: > > > I claim most desktops do nothing but games and office-type > > applications, both of which are available to Linux. > > You're kidding, right? Just because xboing is available for Linux > does not mean it's a substitute for "The Need for Speed". It has Quake and Civ:CTP, what else do you want? :-) Sure, Windows has MUCH more. But Linux does have decent games. > > Alas... is there any kind of application *not* available to Linux? > > Well, Microsoft Office, Links386 (a golf game which I enjoyed immensely > in my days on DOS), a flight simulator is another app I miss, and my > Dad wants to use Quicken. Microsoft Office is of the kind "office suit". Applixware exists. Games are games. Quicken-like applications also exist. So, all kinds of applications you enumerated exist. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message