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Freshmeat: The Two Edged Sword

An editorial by Jim Gettys.

“I am surprised, amazed and gratified at the revitalization
which has taken place in X software development over the last few
years. I have grown tired of ‘blue screens’, and crashed editors
that leave my file locked.”

“But while the current Linux environment is much better than
UNIX systems used to be out of the box, it still has a long way to
go.”

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