> To Alan Horkan: > > Sometimes in the course of x86 computing, using M$ OS's becomes > unavoidable. I'm am currently stuck in this situation at the moment.
I agree that there are some situations when it is very hard to avoid. Personally I dont even want to switch from windows98 to anything else, although I do use various other operationing systems but none as much the one from Redmond. Partially it is laziness, and inertia because I have become very accustomed to doing things a certain way. Also win98 allows me to play the few computer games i own. Probably biggest reason to use windows 98 is that i have already paid for it (more than once). > I also prefer open source software. However in the Windows environment > there is no alternative to Opera... Mozilla is way too slow and a huge > resource hog, not too mention unreliable. (Caused by M$) There are no > others worth mentioning... I am using Mozilla on windows and i am quite happy with it. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. If you have not tried Mozilla recently it may have improved and become more to your liking. I hope you will try it agian at some stage You might consider trying K-Meleon is also available. It uses Mozilla's rendering engine Gecko. http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ Although i realise Opera users are very fond of the Tabbed Interface (which continues to mystify me, explanations offlist if you must). Sometimes I am willing to go out of my way to use open source software or i should probably say "free software" because I value the extra freedom (although find the terminology clunky and ineligant, why not "freedom software", and i cannot believe Richard Stallman was actually pedantic enough to pronounce the slash when he says Gnu/Linux, maybe he was overemphasising to make a point, but i digress) but i also definately beleive there is plenty of room for commercial software and room for Proprietary software (Quake being a great example) I would have sworn I mailed you offlist, otherwise i might not have gone at length. The abiword developers have for as long as i have known them always tried very hard to follow the standard and interoperate with MS Word unless there was a very good reason to do otherwise. If Opera can do a good job of displaying Abiword documents without any need to reformat them then I will have to give it try (and find out what is stopping Mozilla). Sincerely Alan Horkan http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/ PS Gem Drop X, neat game. Frozen Bubble is my current favourite game. (i dont expect anyone but Calvin to get this reference).
