On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:52:28AM -0800, Michael Costolo wrote: > --- Jon maddog Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are right that Linux will fail on most at-home desktops in 2004-2005 > > because of a lack of "cool" software. > > Would you define "cool" software? Frankly, I am of the opinion that Linux comes > with lots of cool software. Or at least, lots of cool software runs under Linux (my > apologies for the pedantry). But being a physicist, I suppose my geek factor is > pretty high. What "cool" apps would you say are currently lacking for (non-geek) > families?
Based on what I've seen - Quicken, and an Outlook/Exchange replacement. Also ability to run any medium complex window's App. would tremendously increase trend rate to Linux. > -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss