Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Well, sure. If FreeBSD had been easy to install in year 2000, had a
large community, and apps like Netscape (or was Mozilla released by
then?) then I maybe would have tried FreeBSD.

They had, actually. I remember going to an internet cafe while on
holiday in December 2000. I was surprised to see they were running some
flavour of BSD (I think FreeBSD but I'm not sure) with Netscape
Navigator.

Hans


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