Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 16:27:05 -0700 From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: dufault@hda.com Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Mma for Linux, when? Message-ID: <199505182327.QAA25751@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> IMHO, the right thing to do is to work on our Linux emulation so > that we can run the Linux Mathematica port and not try to push If a company has indicated a willingness to do a port for FreeBSD, I believe we should only encourage them. The problem w/ most OS'es is not too many applications. It's too few applications. Keep in mind that the number of users increases with the number of applications. It's shortsighted to say we don't need all the applications we can get. Since WRI has decided to go into the freeware OS market, I am continuing reminded of the question, "why not us?" To advance a slippery slope argument, settling for Linux application is tantamount to settling for the Linux operating system. Why run FreeBSD at all if all the applications are going to be Linux applications? Why try to encourage more users to try FreeBSD when Linux is so popular and has so much commercial application support? We might as well spend our time and energy into making Linux a better platform and abandon FreeBSD. [Unless we want to discuss why Linux emulation is technically inferior to running native applications, please follow-up on -chat and not -hackers.] Jeffrey
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