Anybody knows about Foxbase/foxplus and cobol for Linux..... How the world
is going without these in LInux box.....
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, cristian wrote:
> Jeff Mandrell wrote:
> >
> > I am currently running winblows95/S.U.S.E. 5.3, but will soon be setting up
> > a second pc with Linux only. I would like to hear from people on the list
> > as to which Linux distribution they prefer. I am extremely new to Linux
> > (less than a month) and have RedHat 5.1, S.U.S.E. 5.3, and Caldera Open
> > Lite. Any opinions as to which distribution would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I put the same question on many lists and I tried till now Slackware and
> RedHat. Now I am downloading Debian to try it also. I did so because I
> want to find out which is the best for a home PC user. Why Microsoft
> would be the biggest on the mass market ? On this point of view I
> searched also for applications with the most interest for the free ones.
> As a matter of fact I am not working anything on Linux, I am only trying
> which is the best for an intelligent home user who also wants to put his
> mind at work not only to click the mouse.
>
> So, that is what I find out:
>
> Slackware is very reliable because its owner, Patrick Volkerdink, is
> testing himself everything he is putting in the distribution. And now he
> made also his own web site. It was simple to install but you have to
> configure yourself, it is less automatic.
>
> RedHat seems to be very good for home-PC users because it has GUI tools
> and peple are used to this from Windows. As a matter of fact configuring
> the modem, printer, mouse must not be a filosofy. This distribution is
> encouraging the newbies. The RPM GUI tool is also a good thing for
> installing applications.
>
> The DEBIAN, I didn't try it yet but I was on the list. They said the
> Debian is the most stable Linux but is not very user-friendly. They said
> it is better to begin with RedHat and then to come to Debian Because
> "you
> don't learn to drive on a Ferrari". The Debian is very dinamic, if you
> want to make a name in the programmers world there is the best place.
>
> I found applications for all the distributions: Netscape Com, The GIMP
> (an ADOBE Photoshop for Linux), Email, Text Editors, Midnight Commander
> (kind of Norton), Corel's Wordperfect8 is now free for personal use,
> StarOffice and KDEOffice are now free. KDE is now distributed packages
> for RedHat and Debian and in bin.tgz, the Qt tool which served for
> building KDE is now free. It seems also the game makers began to make
> Linux versions of their games.
>
> The distribution you choose depends only of your taste an of you want to
> work on linux.
>
> For myself I choosed a Mandrake distribution which is a RedHat with the
> KDE allready installed, with Netscape, GIMP (I am a photography fan),
> Midnight Commander (I press mc and my usual Norton Commander appears),
> the filter for my printer was in the distribution, and now I have the
> best home-PC, and all for free.
>
> Contrary to all advices I use the Netscape Composer as a text editor
> because so I have the compatibility with Microsoft. I am working now to
> install Wordperfect8 to see if it has a feature to turn the files in
> .doc files for MS Word.
>
> All above was only a personal opinion as a home-PC user.
>
> Cristian Carnutu
>
>
