I'm glad to find some agreement on this, as it was obviously not a good experience for me (losing everything because I thought I'd take drastic measures to try to prevent losing everything).
There are so many good softwares that have been tried and-or half tried. I used to be a geos enthusiast of sorts (now newdealinc.com last I looked) but they were too stupid to market it as a downloadable DOS and Windows Office Suite, which would have helped it cream MS Office, instead insisting on touting its OS potentialities to the exlusion of other stuff. Now it seems like it's been an irrelevancy for 10 years, but who knows, maybe they'll help revive old 486s or less. I mean, how much power does one need to store an address spreadsheet? But Linux doesn't seem to be going away, nor Apple. I'm just surprised that MS still seems to be getting such dollars for their Office Suite. What for? I understand the OS trap, but there are great office suites out there for nearly nothing. >I agree totally. Do not try to install Linux beside M$ without help. The best >idea is to start with a Klunker (Linux will even run on a 486 system, but >with some restrictions on what will run. ie Gnome & KDE desktops are too big, >so an alternative windows manager like Ice or BlackBox is required) Network >your systems together, & linux will be able to access your M$ files. > It has been said on other lists that once people start using Linux, they >find they use M$ less & less, till eventually they don't use it. (This took >me 18 months) >The best way to start with Linux is to take a computer to a Linux >Installfest, which is where the local Linux group has a big install day to >attract members. Most groups run these periodically. >regards Doug Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
