Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:59:29 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... Message-ID: <1351774619.20050213135929@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <2d7d2dd205021304292830a223@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050211122632.99069G-100000@fledge.watson.org> <1935025570.20050211232605@wanadoo.fr> <dcb2c27a05021200582c5750c1@mail.gmail.com> <200502120122.33589.reso3w83@verizon.net> <823306184.20050212113045@wanadoo.fr> <2d7d2dd205021304292830a223@mail.gmail.com>
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Simon Burke writes: > Use on my SGI workstaion (IRIX), GIMP I said Photoshop, not GIMP. I don't want equivalents, I want the same applications. I can get Photoshop on the Mac, so moving to a Mac would not present a problem for Photoshop (although it would for most of my other applications). > All of MS office can be run via wine ... Why bother, when it's so much easier to run Windows instead? >> Corel KnockOut > Quite probably plugins for GIMP to do that, infact if u know how to > use photoshop correctly then why would you need it? Have you ever used KnockOut? > If this means smart filesystem, then whats wronf with UFS2, ResierFS, XFS, No. SFS is a spectrogram analysis system for study of human speech and phonology. >> Rebel > GIMP, or stop being so fsckin lazy Rebel is a chess program. >> However, I should point out that I also have applications that will not >> run on Windows: >> >> BIND >> sendmail >> syslog >> sshd >> ProFTP >> SFTP > Every heard of cygwin? Just as it's illogical to run Windows applications in emulation under another OS, it's illogical to run non-Windows applications in emulation under Windows. > There are alsways alternaitves that can do the exact same job ... I don't want alternatives, I want THE SAME PRODUCTS. Why is this so difficult to understand? I don't want to run just any SMTP mailer, I want to run sendmail. It's as simple as that. > ... so i dont see the problem ... I do. Many geeks are extremely attached to their operating systems and relatively indifferent to their applications, since they often never do anything critical or serious with their systems, anyway. So they see no problem in using "equivalents" for certain applications in order to guarantee that they can play with their favorite operating systems. Non-geeks need specific applications for specific purposes, and the OS is irrelevant. So if application X runs on OS Y, then OS Y is the obvious choice. The vast majority of computer users are in this latter category--even many IT professionals are in this category. > ... Oh by the way I am a linux system developer, so > i do know what im on about unlike Mr i cant be bothered to update my > workstations. I've been a system developer, too, several times. But I have neither the time nor the inclination to be one when I'm trying to achieve practical, useful goals with my computers. Playing around with an OS is only practical if you have nothing else to do with a computer except play around with an OS. -- Anthony
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