On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> 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.
I doubt that you are mistaken. My lowly Pentium133 is never CPU bound unless
I'm rebuilding a kernel. But loading StarOffice is an excercise in paging.
I've got 64 meg.
>
>
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