X-Message-Number: 4611
From: Peter Merel <>
Subject: CRYONICS gui advocacy
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:36:52 +1000 (EST)

David Stodolsky includes a pro-mac article by Cary Lu.

Speaking as someone who's been paid to program under MacOS, windoze,
os/2 and a lot of unixes, I have to say: Macs vs. PCs? They'll both
run Linux, so who cares?  MacOS and windoze are both braindead compared
with a well configured Linux box, so mac and windoze "power users" are
barking up the wrong tree.

Linux is too much for a novice, but luckily there's an excellent
alternative:  GEOS, from geoworks. GEOS is extremely inexpensive,
lightweight and includes everything you could ever want for everyday
computing uses, up to and including a great integrated
desktop-publishing package. It's so light on cpu and disk that it runs
on a PDA, it's much more user-friendly than either macs or windozes,
and it's easy to integrate with Linux if you want to scale up.

Now the other camp that get involved in these advocacy wars are
the utopians, so we better satisfy them too:  The ultimate 2.5D gui
is/will be .... GnuStep, FSF's implementation of the Next interface.
About as groovy as you can get without VR.

Now shall we get back to corpsicles?

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