Kevin Cully wrote: > Kids use Firefox and play some of the Flash based games on the Internet. > They like some of the FOSS games on Linux too. >
Speaking of which... I normally take with me a 2Mb pen drive. In it I have Firefox, Torpark, Thunderbird, Open Office, Essential PIM, CLCL (Multi-ClipBoard), Process Explorer, Calc98, V-Grep, uStart (a carry along Start Menu for the pen drive applications), all my reference pdf's, and any other docs I need. The beauty of the thing is none of this applications needs to be installed in W$, so I can use my own mail box, my favorites, my word processor, etc in ANY windows computer I lay hands on. > My wife uses Thunderbird for mail, Firefox, OOo (Calc and Writer), and > Internet Explorer (to get to the school's web site. Grrr). She's > becoming quite the expert at The Gimp too to do some photo manipulations > for the side job she has for landscape design. > > When a Windows install goes bad, I dread the hours it would take to > re-install the OS plus all of the software. With Linux, if I want to > get to the latest versions (I've never had a Linux install go "bad"), > the process is literally a 25 minute install and that's with a > re-format. Add an hour or two to re-install the required software. > With that short of a cycle, all of a sudden, a re-install of the OS is a > viable option again. Crazy, I know, but true! > > If I was growing a business (I like being a solo programming shop), I'd > do Linux workstations, and FOSS in a heartbeat. > > Kevin Cully > CULLY Technologies, LLC > > Sponsor of Fox Forward 2006! > http://foxforward.net > > > MB Software Solutions wrote: >> What...Linux? My daughter and wife didn't want anything to do with Open >> Office's Text Document program even though they only do simple word >> processing. They've exactly the kind with the M$ marketing hooks still >> in their cheeks. ;-) >> >> > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
