Hello!
There are many distribution which Red Hat is one ot them.
If you want KDE as a desktop manager (www.kde.org for screenshot). This
desktop manager has the look and feels of Win98 but with the stability of
Linux. Very easy to learn for a window user.
A Red Hat clone distribution that runs KDE is Mandrake-Linux which can be
found and downloaded for free at http://www.linux-mandrake.com
This distribution also comes with GIMP (A photoshop like image handling
program with many amazing filter) FREE
Heck! You can also get WordPefect8 for Linux www.corel.com Free for
personnal edition but 50$, I think for compagnies and it is compatable with
your wordperfect Win files. Or you can get StarOffice www.stardivision.com
for a complete Office application suite (word, spreadsheet, presentation,
mail, agenda, HTML, etc.) FREE personnal edition.
If you are looking for many program on Linux. Take a look at
www.linuxberg.com
Have fun!
Patrick
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De : Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
� : Ben Ey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc : 'Mapinfo-L' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date : 23 mars, 1999 11:56
Objet : Re: MI In the dark
>Ben Ey wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I've just started hearing, through the list, about
>> Linux & GRASS
>> and was just wondering what they were/are. Could someone give
>> me a brief
>> description of the two. I'm assuming that Linux is a new
>> operating
>> system of some sort but I have no idea what GRASS is.
>>
>
>Baylor University now supports GRASS, which is a very capable and
>free GIS package that runs in a UNIX environment. It will run on
>Linux (a free and very capable UNIX-flavored OS that can run on
>PCs as well a almost anything else). The GRASS homepage is at:
>http://www.baylor.edu/~grass/
>
>For Linux, go to the Red Hat site at http://www.redhat.com/.
>
>What the heck... set up Linux on one of your old 486s that isn't
>doing anything useful these days, load the free Apache web server
>stuff and free Java engine, hook it up to the web and you can run
>the new MapXtreme to make web maps without using any Microsoft
>products anywhere. Imagine that!
>
>- Bill Thoen
>
>
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