Re: Dual-faced OS (was Good point of Linux over Windows NT)
Thayne Harbaugh (Thayne_Harbaugh@lardav.com)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:30:00 -0700
> From jeffg@QuestTek.com Thu Jan 23 18:50:02 1997
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, wcooley@navi.net
> Subject: Dual-faced OS (was Good point of Linux over Windows NT)
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> >occurred to me what a splendid thing it would be if someone developed an
> >OS which had both a nice, user-friendly GUI, for the graphic designers
> >and secretaries, and a good command-line interface, like a UN*X shell and
> >commands, that's fully tweakable. Imagine--a real choice!
>
> Have you driven a BeBox lately? (A bit hypocritical since I haven't
> either...) Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that bash and
> many of the GNU utils have been ported. And Be loves developers -- gives
> them hardware price breaks even. On the other side, the graphical
> capabilities are reportedly phenomenal.
>
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I have a buddy using it and it looks hot. It's got many UNIX thingies and has a
well built gui.
Thayne Harbaugh