On Wednesday 25 August 2004 00:12, Wally Brown wrote:
> The best way to fix all of this is to format your drive, install
> Linux and install wine.
>
> I am really surprise to find how many schools have gone the
> Windows route when there are so many free Linux distributions
> available and many of the office packages are as good if not
> better than Microsoft's versions.
Wally, her most important application is a math programme by the
name of Derive. she uses it extensively, and it won't run under
wine (tried many times with no luck). And Crossover Office doesn't
recognize it either. Win4Lin may do it, but it sposn't support XP,
only win98, which I don't have (and, honestly, I don't want to
throw any more money in Microsofts direction, ever).
>
> Only Bill Gates can get away with charging top dollar for a
> second rate product that is traditionally shipped with bugs in it
> and can have the attitude of, we'll get to that later.
>
> I doubt any of us would still be running Linux, let alone IBM
> scrapping OS/2 and taking on a Linux distribution of their own if
> it had half the troubles that Microsoft has had.
>
> I'm disappointed that Mandrake doesn't seem to include a copy of
> xkill with it's distribution, it was the best part of the old
> release.
Aaahh.... finally I can give something back to you nice people:
Mandrake includes xkill, naturally. It doesn't appear on the desktop
as default, avoiding clutter. But if you press :
<Ctrl><Alt><Esc> simultanously, your cursor will change into the
well known skull. Move it to the offending app, and left-click.
Whack. Its only deficiency is, that I can't move it to Microsoft.
Thank again, friends.
Kaj Haulrich.
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*Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7*
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