On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:19:27AM -0500, dircha wrote: .....
> Well, I guess I didn't know what type of user you were. That you say you > will be doing a lot of coding, I assume, from what you said above, that > you are entering a Computer Science or Engineering program. ..... > If you run Debian/Linux as your primary OS, the odds are that you will > get no support from your school's IT support services. On your own you > will have to figure out how to print on their (probably) Windows network > to their Windows printer shares, and probably access file shares on a > Windows network. If your school has a local Linux Users Group, perhaps > you can go there for help with issues specific to your school's network > resources. A number of universities are seeing the light and moving (or should I say lurching) to Linux. Sometimes it's a war between Computer Science (Linux) and everyone else (WIndows). Find out what the situation is before you buy and/or enroll. > > Also, you may have to turn in electronic documents that will > render/format correctly as .doc documents in MS Word. There are little > issues that come up with things like bulleted lists, outlines, and > footnotes. I use abiword. I don't use these things. I find the user-interface too clumsy. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
