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From: ikhala@netcom.com (I'Khala)
Subject: Re: application software
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:53:29 GMT
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In article <ADLER.96Mar28005816@pulsar.wku.edu>,
Allen Adler <adler@pulsar.wku.edu> wrote:
>In article <4j9tgf$1gd@news.mhv.net> mgraffam@news.mhv.net () writes:
>
>>   There is plenty of software for Minix. Minus the large Unix stuffs
>>   (X, TeX, Emacs, etc) most anything for Unixish systems will
>>   compile with a little work. Grab some source, learn C and
>>   compile it. It may sound harsh but thems the realities of any
>>   freebe OS.
>
>Well, not Linux, which has X, TeX, Emacs, GCC and other GNU stuff,
>etc. and is also a freebe OS. If you have a unix operating system 
>that doesn't support these packages, what good is it?
>
>Allan Adler
>adler@pulsar.cs.wku.edu

ooh ... i don't know?  ask linus torvalds what good minix was ... :)

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