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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (57200)	4/9/2001 12:49:26 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

What is your point? The freeware that you list is all gnu software which is free even on the Microsoft Windows platform. Nothing from SUNW is on the list that you provided.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (57200)	4/9/2001 4:00:57 PM
From: Valley Girl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Don't let facts get in the way of your opinion And you be sure to resort to insults when reason fails you. Sure, you can hunt around on the web and individually download a complete system from bits and pieces, in addition to the stuff you pointed to, you can go get Apache from somewhere, a servlet runner from somewhere else, netscape from somewhere else again, yada, yada, yada. The commercial Linuxes bundle all this stuff. Also, I believe that you don't get the "good" C compiler/linker/debugger without paying Sun some money, though I'll admit that may have changed in the year or so since I last looked. I have the "free" Solaris x86 and yes I've installed it, along with Linux, BeOS, and several versions of windows, just to try them out. I can tell you that the Solaris x86 install was the buggiest and most troublesome of all of these, and came with the least stuff pre-packaged in easy-to-install form. Admittedly, it was two years ago that I got it, perhaps it's improved. Oh, it did come with StarAwful, which I ran screaming from after some bad experiences with the usability and compatibility vis-a-vis MS Office. Guess that's one up on Linux