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Up until recently, the gui was decidedly inferior to windows, but that's
really not so obvious with the latest multi-module version of X. The
recent fonts are much improved too. It's dramatically better Xorg
- --configure actually configured X automatically for me the last two
times in a row. Print drivers are starting to get there with CUPS and
foomatic. HP is starting to support Linux with HPLIP (not quite ready,
but working on it.) Eclipse and Netbeans IDEs stack up reasonably
against Visual Studio, OpenOffice is starting to mature. I just did an
upgrade to Slackware 12.1 in a single (albeit long) evening. That's no
worse than Windows. About the same level of difficulty too. Windows on
the other hand has ceased to get better. Now it only seems to get
bigger, slower, bloatier, and more condescending. Software offerings
like Office, IE, BizTalk, are often horribly complex, poorly documented,
change between releases in ways that break applications beyond repair,
with feature sets that are capable making 5 kinds of latte, but not
buttering bread.
Pete Hall
pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Richard Schoen wrote:
| I'll add my two cents.
|
| Linux can be used nicely as a back-end server to run Samba, Apache or
| Tomcat based web apps and probably other server apps.
|
| I have played enough with the Linux desktop software and talked to many,
| many customers and students and I don't see MOST people EVER going away
| from Windows or some variant unless they are using the Linux box as a
| term server front end or something else where it's simply a
| browser-access box.
|
| It could happen for the server side stuff, but not the client :-)
|
| Then again. I could be fooled :-)
|
| Regards,
| Richard Schoen
| RJS Software Systems Inc.
| "Get the information you need. Now!"
| Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Web Site:
http://www.rjssoftware.com
| Tel: (952) 898-3038
| Fax: (952) 898-1781
| Toll Free: (888) RJSSOFT
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| ------------------------------
|
| message: 4
| date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:59:35 -0600
| from: "John Taylor" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi and Linux
|
|
|
| Raul Jager wrote:
|
|> More likely: a silent mayority.
|> Windows does not need to be running.
|
| I'm really hard pressed to believe that a silent majority are willing
| and
| _ABLE_ to switch to Linux. Of the 10 or so 3rd party Windows
| applications
| that we depend upon, none have a Linux version, or any plans to provide
| one.
|
|
| Actually, I'm even having a hard time believing that a silent majority
| actually want to. I suspect that the "silent majority" is to be found
| outside of us tech people, and that they (like my mom) don't give two
| hoots
| if it's Linux, Windows, or Mac, as long as it just works, and is easy to
| use.
|
|
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