But that is exactly what I do... one of my workstations is an NT with X11 support. I have xemacs running native and remote to my linux box(s). I first get things running on Linux then use CVS to update my Visual C++ files and only then use Visual Studio to compile and link. I never use Visual Studio edit anything unless it is a very trivial (typo?) change.
"...the freedom and openness that actually make Linux/BSD good."
Only half true - I wouldn't give two hoots for Linux/BSD if it were just free (as in speech). Its the quality which counts. One of Ritchie's and Thomson's major objectivies were to create an OS under which they themselves would like to work. Hardly, I thing, a Microsoft ojective.
If the typical application is MS-Word or something similar that is expected to be installed on millions of platforms, then the marketing costs exceed by far the costs of development. Conversely if the application has a limited installation potential - something to be used by at most a few hundred civil servants, then the development costs a paramont. In this case, the quality and developer friendliness of any UNIX/Linux/(X)emacs platform far exceeds that of any MS-Visual-Studio type of development environment (I speek from 25 years UNIX and 8 years Windows/*/NT experience.)
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But that is exactly what I do ... one of my
workstations is an NT with X11 support. I have
xemacs running native and remote to my linux box(s). I first get things running on Linux then
use CVS to update my Visual C++ files and only then use Visual Studio to compile and link. I never use Visual Studio edit anything unless it is a very trivial (typo?) change.
Buy Microsoft instead and support gun toting American mummies and daddies.
"...the freedom and openness that actually make Linux/BSD good."
Only half true - I wouldn't give two hoots for Linux/BSD if it were just free (as in speech). Its the quality which counts. One of Ritchie's and Thomson's major objectivies were to create an OS under which they themselves would like to work. Hardly, I thing, a Microsoft ojective.
"Yup, it all boils down to apps again"
No - it all boils down to what kind of apps.
If the typical application is MS-Word or something
similar that is expected to be installed on millions of platforms, then the marketing costs
exceed by far the costs of development. Conversely
if the application has a limited installation
potential - something to be used by at most a
few hundred civil servants, then the development
costs a paramont. In this case, the quality and
developer friendliness of any UNIX/Linux/(X)emacs platform far exceeds that of any MS-Visual-Studio
type of development environment (I speek from 25
years UNIX and 8 years Windows/*/NT experience.)
Madonna
Actually - for what it's worth - and despite the
sound of the names Ferrero and Nutella, the name
and the product are German.