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Article #56898Re: Linux vs. Windows 95. Please help!
From: Leon Brooks
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 00:00
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Peter Childs (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au) wrote: : In aus.computers.linux Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au> wrote: : : Leon Brooks wrote: : : > ...and also for OS/2. : : Do I remember correctly that OS/2 is a single-user OS? No. But I don't know of anyone who uses it in a multi-user way. Who would bother when (a) machines are so cheap that it's easier to simply add another machine than adding a terminal and (b) Linux is around. (-: : : If so, how's its security stuff? Hopeless. Nearly as bad as Windows. : : > As an aside, has anyone used anything under Linux/X which would be : : > a suitable drop-in replacement for M$-Publisher? M$P is a simple : : > WYSI(almost)WYG page-layout package. I use it for making a local : : > news-letter, books and booklets and advertising materials like : : > three-fold brochures. : : Why, TeX, of course. Learning curve is pretty steep, as you yourself : : said. ;-) : Framemaker for Linux? Ta -- I haven't seen it. Have you a URL? -=-=-=-=-=- Regards / Leon Brooks -=-=-=-=-=- When in trouble, when in doubt run in circles, scream and shout!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,3c550af9cf9bdeca X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: leonb@dsdata.DIALix.oz.au (Leon Brooks) Subject: Re: Linux vs. Windows 95. Please help! Date: 1996/12/03 Message-ID: <580hb0$8ng@dsdata.DIALix.oz.au> X-Deja-AN: 202181952 references: <01bbc839$2a4e82a0$85585c8b@zvibel> <MPG.ce9b9275f6bb8f0989717@news.lrz-muenchen.de> <328373DE.2EF1D5B6@vo.lu> <56otfa$hip@dsdata.DIALix.oz.au> <32934099.3DC0899F@alpha2.curtin.edu.au> <576fmv$me$1@al.imforei.apana.org.au> organization: Diamond State Data Services newsgroups: aus.computers.linux