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Re: whay am I still using windows




>not suited for a workstation

Dear umpa loompa,

  you do not need a workstation to read Word documents. You need a
Microsoft product, or one of its clones. Also, that is not a workstation,
more like a video games machine with built-in animation capabilities. As
you have discovered yourself, a Microsoft product is the best choice to
use documents formatted according to microsoft standards. That is, because
they don't tell anyone how they are encoded, so no-one but for them gets
to do the rendering and editing programs to work right. Even they don't
always make it.

  As to hardware, if you insist using hardware that is not mainstream, you
will get to write your drivers yourself. I have never had a problem with
unsupported hardware under Linux in 3 years because I've been at
electronics/computers far too long to even think of buying a one-off
product, from software through network cards, and to display cards and
CD-ROMS and modems. So it all works. For one-off and incompatible
products, see under that firm, in Redmond's affiliates. 

  And last, what is a workstation ? A workstation is aplace where a worker
does his job done with a computer. This means, that the thing must suit
the work's needs. Word processors with animation are not workstations.

  You will get to appreciate this, when you will have to design a major
web site, with search engine and web commerce built in. I really really
want to see someone who does not use an Unix computer for that, so he can
test the CGI and real directory structures as they are.

  I use Linux mainly for programming and document database, and it works
very well. Even in Hebrew. BTW the simplest text editor for Hebrew under
Linux is hpico, which comes in the package of hebrew pine, from huji and
others.

  You will get to know how bad L95 is, when you will get to manipulate a
7000k database text dump to extract data from it and recode it in another
format (which can be done even with shell text tools in Linux), or when
you will work on some serious CAD or EE drawing or PCB layout and have 5
hours work vanish in a crash because someone sent you an email and the
MPEG viewer that popped up to display the enclosed multiwaste attachment
got stuck. Writing 20k web pages is not a serious occupation for a Pentium
anyway.

  I don't know much about apple networking, but I know that Samba works
very well with a lot of people, and the apple thing also.

  FTP works well since forever, and NFS too, between Linuxes, and other
things, and Windows. It's just a question of setting it up right.

  The office applications for Linux support Word documents as far as I
know (but not Hebrew).

So, unless you are trying to start a flame-war, may I ask why you posted
this mesage here ?

Peter