mmm.... I must be delusional. I haven't booted my Win95 side in months (When SuSE 6.1 with the 2.2.x kernel comes out I will reclaim that space for Linux) so how am I keeping my checkbook balanced and reconciled? Must be a phantom copy of cbb. I do my symbolic math with MuPAD 3.4 instead of MathCad 7.0 but I must be dilusional there also. My scanner scans perfectly well using Sane-1.0, which is called out of GIMP-1.0 and my other graphics programs, to say nothing of Blender-1.37 and Varkon, but I must be imagining things. I think I'm enjoying air combat simulation with ACM 5.0, which is much better than M$ Flight Sim. I'm not into music but I do know there are some fantasic sound and sound analysis programs. To sum up, has this guy done any serious searching? JLK
"(Ted Harding)" wrote: > > Apologies for duplicate postings, but I'd like to make sure I sound > a diverse population. > > Today' London "Sunday Times" feature "Innovation" (pp 10-11 of "News > Review", http://www.sunday-times.co.uk ) has an article by David Hewson > (of "Linux, the Program from Hell" fame) entitled "Linux wins backing of > computing giants". > > His attitude to Linux is much more moderate than it was: the article > is basically balanced and fair, including some sound negative comment. > > However, he states: > > "Behind the hype there is precious little sign of Linux becoming > a serious, versatile desktop OS. If all you need is a browser > to get through the day, it's fine. But if I boot the PC I am > using right now into any kind of Unix the list of stuff I lose > -- music composition, accounting and personal finance to name > but a few -- is endless because the applications just aren't > there. On top of that, Linux is difficult to set up, fails to > understand the difference between a desktop PC and a notebook, > and lacks any kind of plug and play facility." > > I'm sure the last sentence is simply wrong in point of fact. > > If, in the previous sentence, he'd given a longer "list of stuff I lose" > one might be in a better position to respond constructively. > > However, can I ask people what they would use for "music composition, > accounting and personal finance"? I'm aware of good programs for > creating musical scores which can also generate MIDI output, but I'd > hardly call them top-flight composition tools; and it does seem that > the accounting/finance area is thinly served. > > He didn't mention OCR (optical character rcognition) either. Where is > the OCR program for Linux that works? > > Now that vmware is out ( http://www.vmware.com ) people who want to > can run Windows applications on top of Linux without, it seems, losing > much or indeed anything, so this could be the basis of another line of > reply to Hewson's article: he can start up Linux and the "list of stuff I > lose" would be empty because it would all still be there! > > Comments, info, contributions, anyone? > > Best wishes to all, > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 28-Mar-99 Time: 12:49:27 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
