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It's 17 Nov 97  13:13,
We'll return to dmajor@labyrinth.net.au and All's
discussion of Should I try Linux?

 dm> I'm certainly keen on trying it out, and will probably do so
 dm> regardless of what sort of feedback I get from this post, but
 dm> forewarned is forearmed...

 dm> I have a small number (4)  of computers, soon to be networked (not
 dm> sure how yet).

 dm> Workload consists of web page creation, site design nad maintenance,
 dm> graphic design for print, typesetting books and magazines, image
 dm> manipulation, etc.

 dm> Current OS is Win95, and current software is:
 dm> PageMaker 6
 dm> PhotoShop 4.0
 dm> PhotoImpact 3.2
 dm> Corel Draw
 dm> Symantec Visual Page
 dm> IE 4

 dm> Is there Linux software of reasonable quality for making web pages and
 dm> maintaingin sites, as well as doing all the PageMakery and PhotoShopy
 dm> stuff?

You might find that a mix of operating systems works best for you.  For
example, Linux for general networking and development Web servers and
Windows 95 or NT for the graphic design.  You can't go wrong on the
server side running Apache under Linux (unless you goof up the configs
<g>).  And don't worry about the systems talking to each other, you can
share the Linux drives to Windows machines.

 dm> Is there any decent page layout software?

 dm> What breeds of fonts can be used under Linux? TrueType? Postscript?
 dm> Both?

As for Linux software, I'm not sure, as I don't use many graphical apps
on any platform.  I'm sure the X gurus will fill you in here. :-)

 dm> And lastly, are there any questions I've forgotten?

Hmm, you'll work them out as you go along. :-)

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