Who ever heard of Linux coming without gcc? Suse did that in the main 9.1 personal download from Novell. I really like all of them but I'm thinking of switching from Suse to Ubuntu if I have any more problems with Suse missing essential packages for developers by default on install. Wow Lance you certainley stirred the pot on this one :) I use Suse at home and Solaris and Windows at work. Likes an easy user interface and wide availability of programs andĭoesn't do much programming and scripting, Windows has worked well for Platform becomes less and less important. Windows emulators for Apples are popular but you don't see theĪs more and more of the programs I use become web based, the actual Some Apple lovers have tried to get me to move toĪpples, but they just never had the software available that PCsĭo. Have gotten much better, and they have, but never enough to get me to The time I accidentally typed "rm temp *" instead ofĮver since people have kept telling me Linux interfaces and programs Make program (I had uses spaces instead of tabs). Once I spent hours trying to figure out what I did wrong in a Pages 3 to 5 of a latex document is easy in windows, for Unix I had toĭo a man dvips since I could never keep straight which flags did My biggest complaint about Unix was the user interface. Soon very good Emacs and LaTex programs became available for WindowsĪnd when I moved to NEC in 1999 I went Unix free and haven't lookedīack. Myself spending more and more time in that window, my next machine wasĪ Windows machine with an X-Windows program so I could connect to theĭepartment's Unix machines to use Emacs and LaTex. Office which ran Microsoft Windows in an Unix window. Windows had good calendar and email programs long before they wereĪvailable for Unix so at one point I got a PC card for the Sun in my My home computer has always been a DOS/Windows machine Information dial-up service), good spreadsheets and word I liked some of the programs one could use, like Quicken, Prodigy (an My future wife had one of the early "IBM Compatible" PCs and (first at Berkeley and then at MIT) I starting using Unix in itsĪnd Troff, then Emacs and LaTex and reading email via the command Mostly programmed in IBM 370 assembly code. My first computer was a TRS-80, my second an Apple IIe.
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