-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 August 2002 08:49 pm, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 06:42:34PM +0800, Genfil Villahermosa wrote: > > I am also planning to start an internet cafe. Linux will be good > > choice for an OS. Do you think people will accept it? ( most of them > > know only Windows) > > From personal experience observing my schoolmates, and from stories > relayed to the list awhile back by my cousin Dido (Rafael Sevilla), a > lot of people actually go to Internet cafes to play games. I'm sure Wine > can run a growing number of Windows games on GNU/Linux, but there will > be a speed penalty and this will hurt. > > If you're sure that you will only cater to people who will surf the > Internet, chat, and do basic office/productivity suite work, then > GNU/Linux with Mozilla/Galeon/Konqueror/Opera/etc, X-Chat/bitchx/etc and > OpenOffice.org should work fine. > > I wouldn't be surprised if a number of people will freak/panic without > the familiar Microsoft Office interface, though. And this isn't taking > wierd documents that don't get imported properly into consideration, > yet. > > I don't mean to be pessimistic about this, but I guess we'll need to see > it to know if it works. Success stories will DEFINITELY be welcome. :)
Im more optimistic, i think it will be successful why? OS plus other softwares are free in gnu/linux so that his software cost is nada. if he will buy legitimate win98 plus microsoft office for each workstations, his better-off in putting his money elsewhere unless his willing to take risk with BSA. OpenOffice would be a better alternative to be used as ms-office substitute. However as you said, clients usually are for gaming and not for surfing. There might be a lot considerations for the clientside or workstations but on the server-side, its better to use linux as game server and we have a lot of success stories here in plug for doing that. - -- thad : <http://thadphole.blogspot.com> GNUPG Key ID : 0x4CB00E5F SMS message : My cosmos is red hot, your cosmos is didly iddly squat - Allan Ginsberg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9ZOyEe/ZRc0ywDl8RAlswAJ4uHzBjujmSk/+zQfUiteEOXj2JAQCaA4tR OaouVNV6x3j4IO1dmgR5aTY= =bbh6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
