On Sunday 25 November 2001 11:43, you wrote: > at the moment the diversity of Linux is its downfall, why should anyone > want one killer app when you can have 5 half finished ones, 2 main desktops > & toolkits, several office suits (none of which talk the industry standard > MS office) ad nausea > > sure Linux is simpler to install now, but excuse me for being more > interested in the end result > > its like every Linux distro feels the need to offer the same end product in > a different way, and the same can be said for most of the competing > applications > > frankly, at the moment Linux is a fragmented mess > > Different distros are not like different releases of windows and should not > be compared in that way.
When reading these kind of comments I can't help getting the impression that you're comparing GUI's instead of the whole OS. It's the usual (IMO shortsited) criticism I hear from m$windows users, that don't really want to be bothered to take a closer look at linux. As for the industrie-standard: both Staroffice and Wordperfect do a fine job on that with Linux. The only next step could be having m$office running on Linux itself. What's the use of that, though? Have fun, Harm Bathoorn.
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