But the difference is that Linux doesn't have to be first, it just has to be better. And it will be. The rich base of command line utilities and a solid kernel are necessary...
Which little pill is it, the red one or the blue, that makes one forget that Mac OS X actually does have both a solid kernel and a rich base of CLI utilities?
In American film history we have two movies that have changed, inspired and affected culture to a staggering degree: The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars. If that were all we had, it would still be pretty damn good.
Birth Of A Nation Gone With The Wind Citizen Kane On The Waterfront 2001: A Space Odyssey (does this count?) The Godfather, I and II
Also-rans: Sunset Boulevard; Death Of A Salesman; Midnight Cowboy; Rain Man (lotsa Dustin Hoffmann, it seems); Taxi Driver and Raging Bull; certain works by Chaplin, Capra, or Altman; Easy Rider; A Streetcar Named Desire....
If all we had were a musical and a 'space opera', no matter how great that particular musical and that particular 'space opera' may have been, I'd feel pretty damned bad.
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And businesses would also want Excel and Powerpoint and other such things that are in Office.
A minor point, perhaps, but iWork ships with Keynote as well as Pages, and Keynote is a PowerPoint replacement.
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Which little pill is it, the red one or the blue, that makes one forget that Mac OS X actually does have both a solid kernel and a rich base of CLI utilities?
In American film history we have two movies that have changed, inspired and affected culture to a staggering degree: The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars. If that were all we had, it would still be pretty damn good.
Birth Of A Nation
Gone With The Wind
Citizen Kane
On The Waterfront
2001: A Space Odyssey (does this count?)
The Godfather, I and II
Also-rans: Sunset Boulevard; Death Of A Salesman; Midnight Cowboy; Rain Man (lotsa Dustin Hoffmann, it seems); Taxi Driver and Raging Bull; certain works by Chaplin, Capra, or Altman; Easy Rider; A Streetcar Named Desire....
If all we had were a musical and a 'space opera', no matter how great that particular musical and that particular 'space opera' may have been, I'd feel pretty damned bad.
A minor point, perhaps, but iWork ships with Keynote as well as Pages, and Keynote is a PowerPoint replacement.