On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:

> Are there enough programs for Linux?
> At least I need: Word

  KWord, AbiWord, Star Office, Word Perfect.

>                  Something like adobe photo shop

  GIMP.

>                  Drawing electronic diagrams

  xfig for vector graphics in general
(also see http://sal.kachinatech.com/Z/1/)

>                  Excell

  Star office, Gnumeric, KSpread

> An equivalent to BASIC to devellop controllers to control electrical and
> mechanical equipment.

  chipmunk basic, yabasic, script basic, X11-basic, 
Visual Basic for Linux, Pure Basic... etc. etc. etc.

> Now I am switching to and fro DOS and Windows, A third OS will not make
> things easy. Would be nice to delete Windows but that day will only come
> if linux offers the same wild variety of programs.

  Linux offers much more variety... and most of them
are even free.
 
 - Steve


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