On 28 Aug 1997 00:25:53 +0200, Ted Harding wrote: > And in this article is stated: > > However, Microsoft's huge installed base of users and wide range of > applications is unlikely to be surpassed, despite what believers in > the Linux magic might hope. Linus has no illusions on the subject and > even employs tools like Microsoft's PowerPoint - running on top of > Linux via one of the Windows emulators available. > > The first sentence I heartily support: when you need to get work done > you are likely to be forced into running an MS-Win application at some > stage and, if you can't run it on Linux, too bad. >
I disagree! The office suits for Linux (e.g. StarOffice and Applixware) are starting to get really good. I can't really see any need to run this kind of applications on a windoze system. You can probably find a couple of applications that run on windoze plattforms only, if you look hard enough, but I haven't had the need to use any application that haven't got an equivalence running on Linux. ( Heck you could do most things that you can in windoze and alot that you can't even dream on doing on a windoze system, with emacs only ;-) Fredrik Ax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
