|-----Original Message-----
|From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 7:48 AM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: RE: [newbie] Windoze
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|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 AM
|> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|> Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze
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|>
|> 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.
Obviously you haven't looked very hard.
|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.
|>
So, why don't you just pay for Linux applications and quit complaining?
(oh, but the next comment will be "they don't exist". Wrong. You just
haven't looked... Corel Draw, WordPerfect, Photoshop, etc. exist for Linux.)
|> 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.
|
The vernacular for this is "trolling".
|>
|> > 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.
No it's not. Mandrake is boot and run.
The average person does far more with Linux than they do with Windows. As a
result "newbies" are often way over their heads.
Most people run it to act as a server of some sort.
Your logic is full of non-sequitors.
|It is a fun toy and learning experience, that is all.
|
Good, now go away.
-JMS
