Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:31

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In article <41bp9a$2lj@sloth.swcp.com>,
Carlos Carbajal <cardinal@swcp.com> wrote:
>
>Linux is great: for an educational experience. It is not
>user-friendly. But everyone is missing the point of OS wars: apps
>determine the success of an OS. Right now this is why DOS/WIN is in
>the lead. Linux versions of Word, Excel, Notes, Photoshop, CorelDraw
>are unlikely for now.

Well, there is WordPerfect, Xess, MatLab and Mathematica. IBM is porting
Rexx to Linux, and OpenDoc will be supported by Linux/Caldera as well.

Oh, and don't forget SmartWare, which includes a Relational Database,
a Spreadsheet with Presentation Graphics, a Word Processor and a Modem
Communications module.

More apps are on the way, as developers wake up to the fact that users
are not doomed to "windoze everywhere" after all.

Even without these apps, Linux makes a great X workstation for C code
development, or industrial strength platform for internet server duties.

--
 Joe Sloan                     |    http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
 jjs@engr.ucr.edu              |    College of Engineering
 jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu        |    University of California
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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux
Date: 22 Aug 1995 18:31:08 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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