Missing Linux apps on Windows

[Karl F. Larsen]

Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) wrote:
> Pete Holsberg schreef:
>
>   
>> There are a few apps for which I have not found Linux-equivalents. For 
>> example, Adobe Dreamweaver.
>>     
>
> Just like there are a few Linux/GNU/Free Software apps for which I have
> not found Windows-equivalents. For example, grep, sed, awk, vi.
> I know that there is cygwin, and there is also gnuwin, but these are not
> original Windows-equivalents. They are just the original software
> recompiled for Windows, and often lacking some interesting features.
> Anyway, *every* Linux distro has them installed by default, but you have
> to jump trough hoops to get them on Windows.
> Srsly, I cannot imagine how any system administrator could ever survive
> without grep...
>
>   
    If you play the my Ubuntu has xyz which Windows does not then your 
just telling the Windows writers what they need to include. But they are 
run by a few people who know how to sell Windows in the millions of 
copies for say $100.00 each. This is a hell of a lot of money which all 
writers of Ubuntu would love to get too.


Karl