Wirehead Prime wrote:
> Second, there are applications...I believe WordPerfect is available for
> Linux as well as many other WSIWYG programs. I don't use them on my
> Linux box because I prefer to have it do useful things.
WordPerfect 6 is available for Linux -- in some incarnations it has
been packaged with Caldera's higher-end configuration. Beyond that,
I can't say, as I hate WordPerfect alsost as much as I hate Word.
>
> Third, I think you need to pick up a copy of Linux Journal as it has
> listings for commercial software etc.
A very useful magazine. I've been getting it since about the third
issue.
> > That was the end of my last try at Linux, a few months ago. I have a Slackware
> > Linux CD with Kernels up to 1.3.12. I now have T-1 access, though, so if you
> > can suggest a system which COULD BE A VIABLE REPLACEMENT FOR MacOS OR WINDOWS,
My (pick your service) 386/25 server is the only one I've still got
running that old a kernel -- it's stable and I see no need to change
that one. Everything else is at kernel 2.0.x.
> Linux isn't a replacement for MacOS or Windows...it goes FAR BEYOND the
> capabilities of either. Certainly you can use it for word processing,
> using the WordPerfect etc mentioned above, but Linux boxes are serious
> business machines that can represent thousands of dollars in revenues to
> a business that uses it.
Linux _is_ a replacement for MacOS or Windows. It provides utility
that Apple and Micro$oft can't approach. And it doesn't crash anywhere
near as often -- that 386/25 hasn't been rebooted since except when the
local power company can't deal with the weather, since I haven't been
allowed to budget a UPS by she-who-must-be-obeyed.
> Keep in mind that there's a trade-off between flexibility and
> ease-of-use. Linux will never be as easy to install as Windows 95. It
> isn't intended for that purpose. It's far too powerful and flexible for
> that and assumes that the user wants to go beyond mere word processing.
Like the old quote about Unix in general -- Linux is just as user
friendly as any other OS, it's just not as promiscuous about who it's
friendly with.
This argument is going to piss off Bill Whitson when he next checks in.
Linux is _not_ within the scopy of this mailing list. And I recall an
item in the FAQ that this _not_ the right place for dicksize wars
between proponents of different systems -- the "advocacy" newsgroups
supply corrals for that gunfight.
--
Ward Griffiths
Two thousand yeare since Bethlehem and still we hear the lie,
that after years of hopes and fears the best part's when we die.
Received on Fri Jan 02 1998 - 22:38:59 GMT