Well, if you are not to sure yourself about why Linux is so great, maybe
it is not ideal for your needs.
Now, having fired that round of heresy let's delve into this a bit more.
I am a dual OS guy. Why, 'cuase I have to be. Most of my office is one
WinTel, and using MS Office, and dispite great products like Applixware
and StarOffice the best way to maintain compatability with everyone else
in the office is to use MS office products. So for writing reports, and
making presentations, I use MS office. Furthermore, products such as
ArcInfo, Abaqus, etc. have not yet been ported to Linux, so I have to run
on Unix or NT. for those apps as well.
I do alot of cooking my own numerical modeling codes. For me, Linux is an
ideal platform for this. All of the development tools (FORTRAN, C, C++
...) and scripting languages (perl, tcl/tk, ...) are there with the
distro, and the Gnu compilers are the best ot there. So ... I have my own
little Linux workstation that I use for program development. Samba allows
me to make it easy to exchange data between my Windows machine, and my
Linux box. As apps are ported to Linux (or suitable replacements are
developed) I get them and install them on my Linux box. Little by little
I am finding my need to spend time on my WinTel box is diminishing.
One of the nice things about development on Linux is the quick port from
Linux to Powerful Unix boxes.
So I say, until you have a better idea of how Linux fits into your
overall work scheme, you might want to put off pushing Linux on your
boss. The objective is to be efficeint and productive, not cling
religiously to and one OS at the expense of being productive.
>On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Tom Gilbert wrote about, Re: Reasons:
>> * Karthik Vishwanath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > I am a grad. student in my first year and am a sort of linux buff.
>Well,
>> > the sad thing is that my boss likes quick and easy solutions and
>goes the
>> > way most of the non-programmers go.. the Bill Gates way. Well, so
>I have
>> > this new project that involves lots of code writing and Math.
>analysis.
>> > The idea is to use Matlab and C. Well so why am I writing to you
>guys..
>> > Well two things: One- I want to use Linux for the project. So I
>want some
>> > arguments to give (convincing ones) from all you gurus there as to
>why I
>> > must use Linux over Windows to get my boss to see the light.
>>
>> If you want to use Linux, then you must know why you do ;) Just
>tell
>> your boss those reasons.
>>
>> > Two, I want
>> > to know if anything with the capabilities (commercial products are
>fine)
>> > of Matlab exists for the Linux world?
>>
>> AFAIK, Mathematica has a version for Linux, this is similar to
>matlab,
>> I think, so try http://www.wolfram.com
>
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R. Haehnel
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