> So here's my question: I need the same sort of software I run on windows: a
> good word processor, text editor, presentation software (I do admit to
> liking PowerPoint), image processing, etc. Preferably all under X-windows.
Get Turbo Linux 2.0, it comes with all but power-point like thing, but a
presentation manager could be considered to be a web browser and a web
server, no? If you are in file mode, and use relative addressing, it
could even be just the web browser. If you think that is enough, you are
covered. Even better, just jack into their LAN, and (if security does
not shoot you,) serve your demo to their browsers. bring a hub with you to
the meetings... we do it all the time at the Linux Installfests.
> Finally, I must make one point in favour of Microsoft. If it wasn't for
> them, the massive increase in PC hardware capacity that's happened over the
> last 10 years simply wouldn't have happened. Let's face it, it's really
> been the huge increase in application size for windows that has forced the
> hardware manaufacturers to make every bigger computers to keep up. If we'd
> all been using Linux for the last 10 years, we'd probably still be happily
> running 286s and be a great deal more productive for it.
Well, Linux does not run well on the 286 because the 286 task swapping
architecture is missing... To do a task swap on a 286, they pre-load
something into the keyboard processor, then re-boot the machine... and
detect the thing in the keyboard processor... (They forgot that little
piece till after the 286 was already shipping...) Little fact I learned
when I worked on bios test routines at HP.
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