From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 4 2:19:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (unknown [199.29.68.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7420F37B405 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 02:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leegold@operamail.com) Received: from shavedham [207.172.128.205] (leegold@operamail.com) by operamail.com; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 05:18:02 -0400 X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Sat, 4 Aug 01 05:18:02 -0400 Message-ID: <001201c11cc6$72f5d3a0$cd80accf@shavedham> From: "leegold" To: Cc: References: <4.2.2.20010803221311.00cb62e0@mail.intwebservices.com> <4.2.2.20010803231933.00d5bb40@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 05:18:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Obviously you're trolling for an OS War. You enjoying yourself Joel (is that really your name)? ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Julian Peterson" Cc: Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:25 PM Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers > Laff. I figured I'd get some flame responses but whatever. > I think people would get along much better if they would just leave > Microsoft in their corner and quit bashing them. > They have their good points even if not always perfect. > And I have an ISP business thanks to Windows NT. So if ya don't like > Microsoft go write to your senator. > > End of story I'm not responding to anymore responses in this mailing list > on that subject. > > Joel > > At 03:10 PM 8/4/01 +1200, you wrote: > >At 22:26 3/08/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >>Well I just have to say that if there wasn't Windows we would all be back > >>the days of console prompt typing and there certainly would not be as > >>many people on the internet. > > > >yeah uh huh. oh I forgot, Microsoft invented the GUI right? And the > >Internet too? Sure. > > > > > >>While Unix is good and freebsd is cool to have much of the open source > >>software is still very bugged. > > > >And Windows isn't? FreeBSD and Linux (and Unix in general) are far more > >stable than Windows. > > > > > >>If anyone is wondering why KDE or Kthis or gnome that doesn't work > >>right... what do you expect! > >>It's open source and why don't you learn C and fix it yourself! > > > >They have work to be done on them, granted. The cool thing is work *is* > >being done on them... at a dizzing rate. Both of those desktop > >environments have come a long way very quickly, and personally I'd choose > >either over Windows any day. I find I'm much more productive because I > >can tailor my desktop to exactly the way I want. > > > >Windows doesn't work right... what can I do about that? > > > > > >>Not really to bash anyone but I think Microsoft bashers really don't have > >>a clue themselves and I kinda like playing Asheron's Call or Everquest on > >>a windows machine! > >>Try playing that on a a Unix machine! > > > >I'm more of a Quake player myself... > > > >Games are one of things that will come as market share improves. As it is > >I've never felt like I'm missing out, but then I'm not much of a gamer. > >There's a bunch of solutions to that anyway... dual boot, wine, > >lokigames.com, and the PS2 > > > > > >>Word processing in a console and putting it through Postscript to get > >>formatting! GIVE ME A BREAK! Some of you Microsoft bashers are worse than > >>not having a clue! How about getting a life! > > > >I did my masters thesis using emacs and latex. It was very easy. All I > >had to do was write, all of the formatting and layout was taken care > >of. I watched one guy struggle through with Word... after a few hundred > >pages with images it got so very very slow, and eventually corrupted > >itself. *shrug* > > > >If you want a GUI for latex, there's Lyx > > > >If you really really feel that you can't live without a GUI word > >processor, well there's Abiword, Wordperfect, Applix, Kword, and > >Staroffice (just off the top of my head). > > > > > >Julian. > > > > > >PS. For not wanting to bash anyone, you do a pretty lousy job. > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message