Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Jeff Halverson
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:46

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jeremyc@bbsone.com (Jeremy N. Cowgar) wrote:

>The problem is that a mail reader is not the only program I need. What about a 
>PIM, Dialer, WYSIWYG Word Processor, Database's, Organizer, Graphics Programs, 
>etc. Thousands of things I use daily, I could not find for Linux.

Mail Program for Linux:         Xfmail      (full GUI, POP support, MIME support, etc)
Dialer:                         DIP for slip connection,  SEYON for procomm-like connection
WYSIWYG Word Processor:         Word Perfect 6.0
Database:                       There are a million and two commercial options here.
Organizer:                      XPlan
Graphics Programs:              XV, ImageMagic, XPaint, MNM/POV, Radiance
                                NetPBM (graphic converters), etc.
Thousands of things:            Netscape 1.1N
                                Multilinugal Mosaic (japanese, korean, cyrillic, etc.)
                                Xrn  (News reader)
                                Maelstrom
                                Executor (Macintosh Emulator)
                                WINE  (Windows Emulator)
                                DOSEMU (DOS Emulator)
                                Xedit (Text editor ala TeachText/Notepad)
                                XTetris  (what platform doesn't have tetris?)
                                Xgospel (Game of GO played across internet)
                                Xfrisk  (Game of RISK played across internet)
                                Xess (Spread sheet that reads Excel format files)
                                Xforms (GUI builder)

>Jeremy Cowgar
>BBS One OnLine Service


Okay, so I didn't list a thousand things...  Name your 1000 things, and I'll try to find
and equivalent under Linux for you...

Jeff Halverson

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