On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:25 pm, Banker, Craig wrote: > Just curious... > > How (what for) do you use linux? (or BSD ;-)
GNU, Linux, KDE and others do everything for me. Communications, publication, image manipulation, programming, news and entertainment: communications: kmail, gaim, konqueror, mozilla, ipchains publication: kword, OO, grace, gnumeric, cups, bluefish, kghostview, k3b. image manipulation: gimp, image magic, gqview orgainzation: kontact (calendar, todo, addressbook, mail) , kpilot programming: gcc, g77, vim news: browsers listed above entertainment: krecord, juk, xine, kmix, alsa, arts and many others. I've got it on all of my computers and don't really use anything else. It's my firewall, my file storage, my mail, editor, typesetter, CD burner, archiver, whatever. It runs on my desktops, laptops and palmtops. Some of the more important utilities that were not mentioned above are ssh, ftp and html servers that tie everything together. I doubt any other software could do what free software does with my hardware. > > > What roles do you wish to see it in? (emerging roles?) > CAD. I would like to know how to make qcad print to scale and draw splines from co-ordinate files. Pythoncad looks promissing. I have some nifty model glider building routines that used a spreadsheet and autocad 10's lisp and printer drivers. The set up was general and could print shapes of any length on fanfold paper. I'd like to have that under Linux, but it takes time. I'd also like it to be the favorite OS of hardware makers and vendors. > > Do you see linux as demerging/waning in some areas? (which ones?) > No.
