[ snip ] On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:17:06 +0530 "zohar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the main point for needing windows is its ease of use but needs> fast hardware. > This is not understood by the people because nowadays hardware is not as> much costly as it was before. > > If someone could give the CDs of the customized version of Linux that > also includes office suite (Staroffice 6.0) and a GUI that makes > operating easy then it can make a big hole in Microsoft's monopoly as it> can also perform on a slow HW also whose lower cost government can > afford.. > >
People with older, slower machines (like my K6/300Mz/196Meg box) are not going to be very happy with StarOffice/OpenOffice. Now that I have a P3/900Mz/256Meg box, the program is quite usable. My wife and daughter are still using the older box on Win98 with the usual accoutrement of Parllel Port Scanner sharing with the Printer, IE, Netscape, Word, Excel, and the occasional Word Perfect, and they wouldn't be likely to put up with what I have to put up with to use Linux or FreeBSD. Until you can buy a linux box at Best Buy and take it home and use it without a friendly unix guru at your side, not much is going to happen. People will pay through the nose for Windows and love it. Only the security minded and the cost conscious and the tinkerers among us are likely to switch at this point. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - ELX rc1 with xfce and sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
