On Friday 04 January 2008 09:10:33 Ernest - (AfriNIC) wrote: > Mark Tinka wrote thus on 1/4/08 4:55 AM: > > On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:31, Dan Bwente wrote: > > > >> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?art > >> icleID=201002048 > > > > Personally, having moved from Linux to Mac OS X mid last > > year, I'd say it was easier for me to move from Windows to > > SuSE than it was from SuSE to Mac OS X. > > I agree here. Having used FC, SuSE and then Ubuntu for years before > moving to OS X, I am much in favour of Ubuntu over OS X. However, there > are common problems with peripheral support on Linux that the average > mwananchi will suffer with. Then of course, Microsoft Office that is not > yet ported to Linux but is available on OS X.
Switching from M$ Office to OpenOffice is really a total no-brainer. I have yet to meet 1 single person that can not create a document, be it a text or spreadsheet in OpenOffice. We switched with the entire company 4 years ago, and never looked back. > > > It was not so much the nitty-gritty details and differences > > in both OS's that I had to pick up (that's the easy part), > > as it was customizing what applications I find important to > > me within my newly-found operating environment, i.e., the > > flexibility (or lack thereof) of large scale e-mail storage > > on Mac OS X sucks. Thankfully, VMWare is my friend. > > I remember we had this thread a while back - I have a mozilla profile > dating back to mid 2003, now more than 4GB, and have had zero issues with > it in any OS that i have roamed with it (Windoze, Linux and OS X) > > eb > > -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
