On Apr 7, 2005 5:17 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:3. the friendliness and willingness of the users and this type ofmailing list.Not
to disappoint you, but my experience is that the Gentoo community is
above and beyond the rest (I know of, RH/Mandrake/Linux general ng's)
in friendliness, h
I prefer to think of killer features, so my vote is for the following:
1. the GPL - it means we can see the source and fix it if necessary
(well I can't but the smarter cookies can and are usually prepared to
help)
2. the plain text configuration file, for similar reasons.
3. the friendliness an
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
There is no "killer app" that didnt get ported, I guess. But linux is
much more secure already by default.
Which is why I nominate Linux itself as the Linux 'killer-ap'!
(&, btw, where did those killer-apps start from???! :) )
rgh.
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> What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is
> such a beast at all)?
Apache, Samba, Postfix, Sendmail, Oracle, Sybase, Weblogic, Websphere?
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On Wednesday 06 April 2005 06:27, Martoni wrote:
> What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)?
>
the gimp, it kills harddisk space, cpu cycles, and the nerves of the person
trying to use it. A real killer.
If you mean 'killer app' in a positive sense, I would vote
On Apr 6, 2005 11:10 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:27:16AM +0200, Martoni wrote:> What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)?>> A "unlikely" candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door> live in my study to
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:27:16AM +0200, Martoni wrote:
> What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)?
>
> A "unlikely" candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door
> live in my study to play "Battle for Wesnoth" on *my* computer (rather than
> "The
On April 5, 2005 09:27 pm, quoth Martoni:
> What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)?
>
> A "unlikely" candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door
> live in my study to play "Battle for Wesnoth" on *my* computer (rather than
> "The Hobbit" on my son
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:01:44AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:57:39 +0200 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | Martoni wrote:
> | > What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at
> | > all)?
> | >
> |
> | This is too easy...gcc. Without t
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:57:39 +0200 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Martoni wrote:
| > What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at
| > all)?
| >
|
| This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing else, including the
| kernel, would exist.
egcs
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Martoni wrote:
> What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)?
>
This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing else, including the
kernel, would exist.
There is really only one app I couldn't live without whether I am
running Windows or Linux, and that is VMWare.
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