At 11:29 PM 2/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Here's an interesting article that makes some very compelling arguments of
>why Linux will unseat Windows as the dominant PC-based operating system:
Poor imitation, weak logic, even "nexisms" (the neologism I'm inventing
for the supposed intellectual validity of AltaVista and Nexis counts) ...
sheesh, everybody's trying to be Eric S. Raymond.
Check out <
http://www.vmware.com/> for software that'll supposedly
let you run several OSes at once, including Windows and Linux.
As I've often ranted, it's more probable that apps from one OS will be
emulated as necessary to various degrees, ranging from CDs of Microsoft-
branded Linux, to even better Win32 APIs for Linux, and species in-between.
- John
Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 08:45:01 GMT