OFF: Fixing Happy

[Joseph Brooks]

Sorry for adding to the OS debate but..

Linux is definately the way to go.. The only thing that keeps me in windows
is a severe and incurable addiction to high-end computer games.. ..and I'm
forced to use Microsloth's bloatwear here at work..

I understand that.. (damn.. I forget the company name now..) is coming out
with a GUI version of Linux late this year that is supposed to run anything
Winblows can... Hmmm.. Bye bye Bill!

JB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Mather [mailto:paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU]
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 1999 9:56 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
> Subject: Re: OFF: Fixing Happy
>
>
> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>
> =>     Ah, but there aren't enough Linux apps yet.  I'd have to
> =>learn to program so that I could write the ones I needed.  Give
> =>them a couple of years, and _then_ we'll have something :)
>
> Actually, you might be pleasantly surprised.  Between KDE and its
> family of applications; StarOffice; The GIMP; Netscape; Pine; Adobe
> Acrobat; etc., there's more than enough to get by on.  I have *zero*
> Microsoft products on my IBM PC clone, and I have not yet been stymied
> by a lack of any applications for anything I've wanted to do.
>
> How much is "enough?"
>
> =>Carl, who notes that there's Linux for Macs as well :)
>
> As well as NetBSD!
>
> But I did not intend to touch off an OS advocacy war, so I shall slink
> back to the NSF research grant proposal I'm supposed to be working
> on...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> NP: Gov't Mule, 5/13/98
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "I don't live today; maybe tomorrow..."
>         --- James Marshall Hendrix
>