On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > That's simply absurd. Linux is precisely what got me where I am today.
> > It is how I learned Unix, and how I became a successful Unix system
> > administrator. Unix admins make more than Windows admins, except perhaps
> > if they can afford to go through the rather expensive NT certification
> > programs, which these people almost certainly can't.
> >
> > One has to wonder if you don't post such messages just to start flame
> > wars, given the obvious preference for Linux amongst the people on this
> > list...
>
> Hey, look around a bit more thoughtfully. People besides computer
> scientists, programmers, and sys admins use computers!! Think of
> clerks, data entry, POS users, memo writers.
If this is what you're talking about, which admittedly is not how I
interpreted the message, then you still can get AbiWord, WordPerfect
Office, Applixware or Star Office, which are similar enough to Microsoft
Office that you can learn how to use office suite software on them.
However, if these machines really are very low end, none of those
applications will run very well, as they're all resource pigs.
But on the other hand, as I've already pointed out, they won't run any
better under Windows on the same hardware. Quite possilby they'll run
worse, or not at all.
> Now if we could only get staroffice, (or similar free windows-ish
> looking thing, e.g. kde/gnome) to run on these 486's it would be even
> closer!
AFAIK, they will run on a 486. The primary show stopper on such hardware
is usually lack of memory. But I may be mistaken on that count.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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