Dual-faced OS (was Good point of Linux over Windows NT)

Jeff Gehlbach (jeffg@QuestTek.com)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:21:37 -0600 (CST)

>occurred to me what a splendid thing it would be if someone developed an
>OS which had both a nice, user-friendly GUI, for the graphic designers
>and secretaries, and a good command-line interface, like a UN*X shell and
>commands, that's fully tweakable. Imagine--a real choice!

Have you driven a BeBox lately? (A bit hypocritical since I haven't
either...) Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that bash and
many of the GNU utils have been ported. And Be loves developers -- gives
them hardware price breaks even. On the other side, the graphical
capabilities are reportedly phenomenal.

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