Hi folks:
If I may, I'd like to contribute an observation to this whole "older computer"
debate.
It all seems to have started with somebody's comment that they didn't feel any
obligation to support those with older machines. That's all well and good, but
who is he/she to dictate what type of machine or OS I should run? I run an AMD
800Mhz with 256 of memory and, while I know the rabid *nix supporters will
sneer at it, it runs just fine on Win98SE. Thanks very much. If the implication
is that OOo should only support a certain flavour of *nix on the latest,
greatest, and fastest of machines while running like a dog on anything else or
not at all I will simply stop using it and look elsewhere for good software.
Why should there be such disrespect for other people's choice in equipment, OS,
or application software? It always seems to give way to a phallic, need for
speed argument that brings back those tales of a bunch of little boys having a
pissing contest to see whose equipment is the biggest and best.
Just my thoughts. Take them as you will...
Regards...
--- "Fred A. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Andrzej Sawula wrote:
> > Ave,
> >
> > Fred A. Miller wrote:
> >>> There are just too many applications for Windows that don't exist for
> >>> *nix.
> >>
> >> 'Not very much of real importance that there isn't something as good or
> >> better for Linux.
> >
> > Show me a decent translation/localization application. Something
> > approaching Trados, SDLX, Deja Vu etc.
> >
> > Show me a good CAD suite comparable to AutoCAD with its extensions.
> >
> > Office suites and photo editing software are not the whole world,
> > folks... ;-)
>
> No, but there are apps. that presently are VERY close and getting
> better! Of course, there WILL be more porting very soon, if for no other
> reason in that it's going to be demanded more than before, as schools
> switch ENTIRELY to Linux, (read below), and business does the same.
>
> Fred
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Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada
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