Hello Day, Saturday, July 10, 2004, 10:54:36 PM, you wrote:
DB> You wont need shells or man pages. The only thing I've used DB> terminal for is to run FDISK to look at crashed drives. It comes DB> with Mozilla composer. It'll read all the graphic formats on a DB> windows drive. (fat 16,32,nt,xp, or whatever) Has gimp, but I DB> dont do graphic work. AFAIK, it runs both win and nix games DB> but I dont do much of that either. I do C/C++ programming, and like to do a fair amount of admini work in shell... same as I do on a Win/DOS machine, so I like having BASH and C shells handy, for when I want them. I've used G.I.M.P., and it is pretty good, but I am still about 10 times more at home in Photoshop and my other Windows graphics apps. Mozilla is my current favourite browser on all OS's that support it, but for email, I am addicted to TheBat!, which only runs in Windows. At the moment, I really like Linux and FreeBSD(for 24/7 on-line, like my server), but cannot simply give up Win98se/Win 2k Pro, for nuts and bolts day-to-day stuff. I want the best of both worlds... at least until Linux catches up enough, to satisfy my minimum daily requirement for tools. Linux is already way ahead of Windows on OS tools, and security, but not in the 'critical business apps' department... unless Xandros or another very new distro has just crossed the line. Of course, I'll NEVER willingly give up my vintage DOS/Win3.11 box, which is happily networked to the rest of my LAN... so I guess even if I never go beyond Windows 2k Pro, I will always have a couple Windows boxes hooked up, just for fun. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ If you have to lie, to sell it... don't. .
