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>jeremyc@bbsone.com (Jeremy N. Cowgar) writes:

>>In article <DDBFwE.8Kw@wombat.hanse.de>,
>>   root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer) wrote:
>>>jeremyc@bbsone.com (Jeremy N. Cowgar) writes:

>>>>Also in X, lets say I do find an email program, now I want a Usenet program. 
>>I 
>>>>may find one of those even, but my Usenet program will work nothing like my 
>>>>email program. The only thing they have in common is that they can use the 
>>>>mouse, interfaces have changed, keyboard has changed (del/bksp/arrows/etc). 
>>>>Its just not an OS system that a person could use for a productive system.

Utter crap! Linux is free. If you want a consistent interface buy
Motif! No difficulty there. I assume you purchase Windblows software.
I use Linux productively _every_ day. The Andrew User Interface System
is a free system from Carnagie Mellon University  that provides a
common interface to a WYSIWYG Wordprocessor, spreadsheet, file
manager, drawing package, mail system, source editing etc etc etc (its
extensible).

If you want to pay:-

Morse Telecommunications provide an application suite that has a
common user interface including a database system, word processor,
spreadsheet etc.

Caldera have a lovely user interface for X11.

Native WordPerfect 6 is on the way.

If you must have that DOS program or Windblow program you could try
the emulators.

>>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.

Are you sure you couldn't find them cos I did in about 25 minutes with
that _really_ difficult to use piece of software called Netscape. Or
maybe you just don't really know what you are talking about. I am
happy to educate you.

"http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html"

Most of the "thousands" of things you use daily are used cos Windows
is such a brain dead piece of software. I mean a "dialer".....
really...

Linux also has software you wouldn't even _dream_ of running on
anything less than a UNIX workstation. It can handle stuff that would
bring NT to it's knees & kill Winblows95 outright.

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NOTE:-This is my Opinion and not necessarily the opinion of
ANYONE else, especially not my employer!

Colin Smith.
colins@mojo.europe.dg.com