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.. There are two major things Linux would need - in addition to an office suite: Keyboard/character set support. So many are sending e-mail to friends that REQUIRE alternate character sets. Especially mixed ones. Type an e-mail address as expected, but enter the content as, say, Urdu. MS does this sort of thing very well. Linux supports kayboards, but not input methods (right to left text as an example). Web telephone. No kidding. Local phone companies in Africa and the Middle East charge BIG bucks for international calls. One big sales area on PCs are things like net2phone. They are very popular. Some people I know even bought a PC for this alone. Anything else they could get it to do would be gravy. There is Linux telephony - but not out of the box. -- ===================================================================== Roger Oberholtzer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPQ Systems AB WWW: http://www.opq.se Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 115 32 Stockholm Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 Sweden Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
