Hello Peter, Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 1:18:02 AM, you wrote:
PP> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:04, Beast wrote: >> > If the masses are happy with MacOS / MS Windows, why should they switch >> > to Linux? >> >> because of license cost? PP> I was talking about home users. But: PP> The company must have researched and decided that productivity will be PP> much higher with linux than it was with commercial MS Windows? Otherwise PP> there is no sense in making the change and put money in the time that PP> people will have to spend in learning linux: If after the change they PP> are less productive, then the company has shot themselves in their own PP> leg. PP> If the productivity is higher, then the company is happy. And they PP> really couldn't care less if the user likes the colour of her machine or PP> not. >> I'm still thinking will light WM (such as windowmaker, fvwm or even >> twm) will help them (arround 200-300 of them are still p233/128MB RAM) >> *if* they have to run evolution, openoffice, mozilla and oracle >> client?? >> Any advice to improve perfomance? (surely i can not drop the gui >> thing) PP> I have ran Linux + OpenOffice on a 333HMz Celeron with 128M with no PP> probs under Blackbox. With Gnome, I wouldn't even think about it. PP> Are you saying you ran Outlook, MS Office XP, IE and Oracle client the PP> same time happily on a Win98 with a Pentium 233MHz? You seriously have PP> some tweaked hardware there, because watching even MS Office start at my PP> mom's computer (it's a 533MHz Celeron with a fast harddisk, Win98SE, an PP> IBM Aptiva) is really painful. PP> The newest Office applications are not designed to run with old hardware PP> IMHO. They (be it OpenOffice or MS Office) are as bloated pigs as Gnome PP> or KDE are. Dear Peter, Acually, where are you from ? Will you please tell your introduction..... I am keen to learn linux. DNS, Samba, Apache, SSL, Server configuration in linux..... -- Best regards, santosh mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
