.. but OSX gives you Unix AND you can run Word /Powerpoint without
rebooting. And you get a user-friendly ergonomic windowing system that
kicks the **** out of XP/Vista/KDE/Gnome...
best wishes
Pete
On 2 May 2009, at 11:32, Nicholas M Glykos wrote:
Dear All,
We confuse scientific computing with the individual scientists'
computing
needs: just because a scientist has to write a grant application using
word, does not make windows a platform suitable for scientific
computing
(or anything else for that matter). Using computing machines for doing
science boils down to actually using computing machines to compute
things,
and for that you need a proper open-source, production-oriented,
stable
programming environment, ie. GNU/Linux. What individual scientists
prefer
for satisfying their desktop needs is interesting, but, at least to my
mind, largely irrelevant.
My twopence,
Nicholas
--
Dr Nicholas M. Glykos, Department of Molecular Biology
and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus,
Dragana, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece, Tel/Fax (office)
+302551030620,
Ext.77620, Tel (lab) +302551030615, http://utopia.duth.gr/~glykos/
