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How many universally useful, widely accepted and relied upon OS products are there: Linux itself, Apache (but not all of their countless, short-lived sub-projects), PostgreSQL and MySQL, Perl, Python and PHP, JBoss, perhaps a dozen more.


Tons more. Try K3B, Koffice, OpenOffice, The K Desktop Environment (KDE) with hundreds of major components, the GNOME Desktop with similar numbers of large projects, FireFox, Mozilla, ThunderBird, GNU-CC (gcc), GNU-Libc, gdb, (X)Emacs, Sendmail, Postfix, Bind, ...

The list goes on VERY VERY long, and all of these are GIANTS in the industry. Yes, there's a strong emphasis on infrastructure there (needed to bootstrap higher level apps), but there's still hundreds of good, solid end-user Desktop/Server apps within just those few umbrellas I've listed. [EDIT:]And the nice thing is that these ones (listed) just happen to have documentation of at least typical commerical quality, and much better in the case of the GNU stuff.

And anywhere anyone wants something specific, to specific standards, there's an army of folks like me just waiting for the right offer.

Cheer


Edited by mlord (11/09/2005 13:04)