I am sure others on the list agree.....go back to your nice little warm and
comfy winblows, have fun with your reboots and the other BS that winblows
brings.
I can tell you this, we have several microsxs NT boxes here at work that
even microsuxs themselves (with premier support) can not figure out why they
reboot daily, sometimes twice a day. And yet my *nix boxes have yet to
crash/reboot or had any major troubles in over 6 months.
I think MS should stop producing new revs of OS and fix the crap they have
now and make it STABLE!
-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 7:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Windoze
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 06:25:25PM -0500, Gilbert Baron wrote:
> > Linux is so great, where are all of the applications. I will
> tell you where
> > they are. They are not written because nobody can make money on it .
>
> What application do you need? They are all there! And everything is
> available, most even in GPL. Latest addition: StarOffice 6 will be GPL'd.
>
> Or do you mean application == games? If so, then yes, you are right;
> *professional* games are _still_ a weakness of Linux. But that'll change
> too.
>
I mean applications for Ham Radio like
Truetty RTTY and AMtor with sound cark
Zakanaka PSK31 with sound card
Logic 5 Logging and radio control program
Fritz 6 Chess program that has beaten the world champion
MS Office I don't want to convert files and everyone is using office
Fugawi A digital mapping program that allows me to make maps to put in my
Palm for GPS use
PSP5 The best low cost image processing program
All this is only a start. I have 15000 files on my system. Of course not
that many apps but a lot.
Netscape sucks in comparison to IE5.5. Various other things that are not yet
on Linux.
> > Everyone expects everything for free on Linux. Well ad far as
> application
> > choice goes, you get what you pay for.
>
> Yes, exactly! Everything I need is there: Office (KOffice, StarOffice),
> graphics (GIMP), browser (Netscape, Mozilla), email clients (lots and
> lotsa), news clients (too many to name 'em all), programming
> (what language
> do you want? I suppose that it is available), databases (MySQL,
> PostgreSQL,
> Interbase), ....
Yes but these applications are not nearly as robust as the Usoft
counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express.
>
> > I am not hoping that we talk about LINUX in the past tense. I
> just find it
> > is not ready for serious use yet AT HOME.
>
> So isn't Windows. That's all I'm trying to say.
>
> > AGAIN though applications are the major thing, they drive the
> OS and not the
> > other way around. THAT is the real world.
>
> Sure, and that's why Linux will "win". If there's something to win.
Not at this time it won't. It is also MUCH harder to install for the average
person.
It is a fun toy and learning experience, that is all.
>
> Alexander Skwar
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