Most of the desktop apps like Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbirds, Gimp, Nautilus File Browser, etc are comparable/compatible with/to Microsoft offerings. Most of the Linux Daemon that can be installed from the Add/Remove menu, loaded at boot time, and run in the background, (eg comparable to window OS services), run right out of the box. It can take some work to specialize a particular daemon, but windows isn't any better. Is MSSQL any easier than PostgreSQL, for example?
The Linux OS is very modular so there are thousand of applications that can be integrated into the Apache Web Server, for example, and each one may have a few commands that need to be entered in the configuration files, but this isn't a big deal. Source Code is available for all the application, and most Daemons can be compiled modularly to hold only the features/functions needed, but again this isn't difficult after its done a few time and one become familiar with the application, and this feature adds great functionality to Linux. There is only one version of everything in Windows, and its binary. Are you having trouble installing or using any particular application or Linux Daemon/Service? Regards, LelandJ Allen wrote: > My point was that Linux is so hard to use for most people that it will not > be big time. Not knocking it can do the same things as windows, its very > capable but a pig to set up. Only thing harder to set up is Microsoft's > exchange sever which is a big pile of poo. > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Leland F. Jackson, CPA > > A toy rocket with wheels made out of a block of wood is easy to play > with and fun, but its not very functional. A space rocket designed by > aeronautical engineers and made by NASA is very complex, but the > complexity is necessary to travel in space. LOL > > Simplicity of itself should not be the Holy Grail of an OS, but the OS > should be as simple as possible given the complexities of what the OS is > designed to do, but no simpler. > > Regards, > > LelandJ > > > [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 Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
