Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> As far as OS choices, you've got Windows, Linux and [apparently] OpenBSD 
> (which, as best as I can figure out, is exactly like Linux, except that 
> it it's also different somehow...)

  While OpenBSD and FreeBSD are their own OSes, you are most probably
thinking about NetBSD.

  They may "feel like" linux, but they have nothing to do with Linux.
They have their own kernel completely. Also they have many design principles
(eg. related to security) Linux doesn't. Read more at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbsd

> As far as I'm aware, there aren't any 
> other operating systems for the IBM PC that are what you could describe 
> as "usable" in the normal sense.

  I know you aren't aware of many things. For example that Solaris has been
a very viable alternative unix OS for the IBM PC for some years now (some
claim it has even better out-of-the-box hardware support than many popular
linux distros).

> There are zillions of web browsers, but only a few popular ones. [For 
> reasons that escape me, Lynx is apparently quite popular. Judging by my 
> web logs anyway...]

  Believe it or not, sometimes people must access the WWW without a
fancy graphical user interface, eg. from a text terminal. Firefox and
other similar browsers are absolutely useless in that kind of environment.

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                                                          - Warp

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