From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 12 22:33:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA08903 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 22:33:44 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (pp@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA08897 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 22:33:40 -0700 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <06225-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 15:32:58 +1000 Received: from netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with ESMTP id PAA27936 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 15:21:30 +1000 Received: by netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.8.1/DEVETIR-0.1) id FAA01496; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 05:22:27 GMT Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 05:22:27 GMT From: Stephen Hocking Message-Id: <199509130522.FAA01496@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: New Caldera & why we should get Linux compat working 100% Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Given what's been announced below, I think further work on Linux compatibility is a must... > >In <432og0$a9t@news1.halcyon.com>, natew@coho.halcyon.com (Nathan Waddoups) writes: > >>Too few users will bother to learn what sed/vi/awk/grep/whatever even DO >>when they can get turnkey Windows machines and Macs with Notepad and the >>like. >> >>The Caldera desktop will be a big step forward. >> >>Then we need apps that do things that are day-to-day useful for more of >>the populace. Heck, most of the DEVELOPERS I work with don't know what >>awk does. >> >>When Linux has a word processor, spreadsheet, and database that is as >>user friendly as the offerings from MSoft and the like, it will have a >>chance of becoming popular. Until then, it's a sideshow. > >Big full-page spread from Caldera in this month's Linux Journal. >They announced a $600 package (to be delivered "soon") that has: > >Wordperfect for Linux (apparently it's real). This is an X-based >version with toolbars, menus, etc. > >An X-based spreadsheet called NeXess (sp?) that offers, among >other features, the ability to link sheets across the network. > >Motif libraries > >The Crisp GUI editor > >Linux (with www, mail, ftp, and news servers) and the Caldera >desktop package (drag & drop, Netware, GUI admin tools, etc) with >various enhancements not in Preview I. > >Just FYI. > > >--- > Bob Hauck Wasatch Communications Group > bobh@wasatch.com Data (24 hrs): 801-272-3792 >