Don't take this personal, I'm just making suggestions:
Here you go: First, because some of the stuff I have to use, like vmware, doesn't work under linux emu from what I'm told (I did mention that).
You've been told one thing, and I have heard another. Did you search the questions@freebsd mailing list archives for vmware and matlab?
Second, because it means that installing anything that doesn't come tgz'd is a royal pain in the ass, generally.
Can you quantify the PITA effect of using the compiler? I personally find the compiler less a Pain in the Pack Animal and more of a useful tool. Would like a little less GNU cruft, I suppose.
And third, ports aren't released at a rate that is sufficient to take care of 1) and 2) above, though they seem to generally do a good job.
It looks to me like you're arguing popularity there. Is popularity a valid argument?
Personally, I think your point #2 sums up your argument. Even if you have antipathy to using the compiler, there are Linux distributions that you can set up and get to work on fairly quickly. For a variety of reasons, Linux may be better for you.
Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive, but it seemed that your parent-parent post implied that Linux would be better for me too, especially if I need to use vmware or matlab, and I just wanted to point out that your brush was a little wide for your picture.
And to the best of my recollection, the ability to run multiple consoles and multiple X windows has been around for ages on Unix. And yes, you can be logged
on differently on each. I know I was running my Linux system that way back around 97, and it certainly was not cutting edge stuff.
Great. What about 1995? What was the mechanism to set it up and make it work? Did you publish scripts or something, so that you have proof?
Wouldn't want to open the door for Bill Gates to patent it.
Not so much that they go together, but that they use common underlying technology, and user switching is performed as an extension of the original functionality derived from adding the concept of a user.
Not that I know what I'm talking about...
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Personally, I think your point #2 sums up your argument. Even if you have antipathy to using the compiler, there are Linux distributions that you can set up and get to work on fairly quickly. For a variety of reasons, Linux may be better for you.
Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive, but it seemed that your parent-parent post implied that Linux would be better for me too, especially if I need to use vmware or matlab, and I just wanted to point out that your brush was a little wide for your picture.
Wouldn't want to open the door for Bill Gates to patent it.
Like Macs, don't like patents.
Not that I know what I'm talking about
5 points for a guy who apparently didn't even bother to try linux emulation? And didn't mention a reason for not bothering? --/.