On Thu, 17 January 2002, "Jay Strauss" wrote: > I'm still debating the build vs. buy. But I have done some research and > think if I build I'll get a Athlon 1500 (fast and cheap). Now I've only got > about 85 motherboards to look over.
If you are trying to understand computers, nothing helps like a little hands on. > I tried star office a year ago, didn't like a number of things, maybe it's > gotten better, at the time Netscape and monzilla sucked, didn't try Opera, I > never tried Koffice, I was luke warm on gnumeric, going to look at > Evolution, own vmware (but realized I do one thing on the server, I run > xterm (from there I vim and admin), the rest of the time I'm using > Office,IE,Outlook so why not use them natively and get eXceed), maybe I'll > have to learn DocBook/XML/Tex/LaTex (someday, right now I'm climbing the > Java hill, going thru the Sun tutorials, I know I'll just stop sleeping) There are some less bloated X Window software than Exceed. X-Win comes to mind. http://www.x-win.com/ The other is to install the cygwin toolset and then install X-Free on Cygwin. I got it going nicely on a former work system. (That methods free). > > I live in Chicago so can't do the face to face (though the thought of 3hr > lines at O'hare, strip searches, gate delays, and the 4.5 hr flight is very > attractive). Out of curiousity, if you are in Chicago, how did you come to join a LUG list in California? -sp ps- I'll bet Suset Systems ships orders too. ;) _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
