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Article #1155Re: Currant Bun
From: Richard Caley
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <CheetahPRO_v1.13-n5_27380@blackcat.demon.co.uk>, Mike Dickson (md) writes: md> I'm sure Linux is fine and dandy if you have a spare week or two to set md> it up and get it running properly, but most people just don't have that md> sort of time. Takes me on average a month or so to get windows vaguely usable (on the same basis as I'd count a week for unix, ie a couple of hours solid at the start, then significant proportion of the rest of the working time twiddling. md> Add to that the killer blow that it 'doesn't run MS md> Office' and the whole deal is done, I'm afraid. My Windows machine doesn't run MS Office either. Yet dispite it's high cost in support tie I keep it around... md> I dislike MS and use their products seldom if ever, but I've been around md> this business long enough to know that the 'Unix is just around the md> corner' cry comes up about every three years or so, and this is just md> another example of it. Maybe. There is more evidence that the application sellers are interested in supporting it this time around though. -- Mail me as rjc not spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk _O_ |<
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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/18
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