From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Nov 3 15:42:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05097 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05090 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:42:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (IDENT:WHAT_THE_HELL_YOU_LOOKING_AT_@d60-147.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.147]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA14580; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA22048; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:42:20 GMT (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19981103154219.E17695@nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:42:19 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert , Drew Baxter Cc: grog@lemis.com, wes@softweyr.com, scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk, licia@o-o.org, jcwells@u.washington.edu, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet Explorer and UNIX Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <4.1.19981103140957.00b4d100@genesis.ispace.com> <199811031917.MAA03061@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199811031917.MAA03061@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 07:17:33PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > HP/UX and Solaris.. How many people are running that at home? I run Solaris > > here, but I'm not running HP/UX and never intend to.. Linux probably has a > > larger single-user base than those two combined. > > That's irrelevent. The porting effort for one UNIX vs. another is > miniscule compared to what it must have taken to get it onto UNIX > from Windows in the first place. It may also be that what ever GUI/interface libs they used to pull this off are only available for Solaris and HP-UX. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message