On 15,Nov/01 9:33 am, you wrote:
> :Other then that I use linux for basically everything I do. :-)
Well, I built KDE 2.2.1 & use it for mail etc. even though i have yet to
find how to get Konquerer to work properly with secure communications
(Netscape can handle most of these BTW) as to the rest:
Commercial work is:
1. Programming Atmel AVR micros using IAR C / ASM - W98/W2k only.
2. Programming Cypress USB chips using Keil C - W98/W2K only.
3. Making W2K USB device drivers - W2K only.
4. Programming microchip PIC micros - one CAN do this in a dos box under
linux, but - no device programmer code & no debugger - take too long to make
'em :-(
5. PICO virtual oscilloscope. PICO HAVE done a sort of driver for this,
running as a demon (have to be root) - again, would have to write a
graphical KDE app to make use of it - not viable.
6. Writing Windows applications. - None of my customers run linux....
7. Using Acrobat to read later version PDF files. Despite upgrading
ghostscript - still can't print these under linux.
8. Have used cdwriter on Linux , but NERO faster & better IMO.
9. Access Data-bases - don't know of anything on linux that i could
use on these.
10. Word documents. From what I have seen of Kword & OO , neither of
these are suitable for accurately manipulating a Word document.
Other:
I do use the 'gimp' and a wacom serial tablet on linux for drawing - that
IS worth doing - actually prefer it to photoshop.
Aquiring from Samsung digital camera is however done using Twain/PSP
on W2K - not worth looking for a linux way of doing this.
I use XarA (W2K) for vector drawing - occasionally Xfig under linux
I use ABC (Linux) for writing out (simple) musical arrangements,
anything more ambitious would require Sibelius | Finale on W2K.
DeskJet 1220C/PS (not a postscript printer tho *warning*) DOES
work OK via ghostscript drivers - but Adobe proprietary PS
driver is Windows only. Colour tends to be better printing
from W2K - maybe i can fix this though.
Summary:
That said, i actually PREFER Linux (just as I once preferred the Acorn
RiscPC) One can do just about ANYTHING if prepared to spend time
& effort - all the information and tools are there (somewhere)
Little bits of c++ to try things out are much easier to knock together
on linux, and the Borland Jbuilder thing works well enough to be useful.
All sorts of stuff like the Kde hex editor, LaTex (though do not use this
so much now) diff , find , grep , dd and all the rest make linux a very
useful tool kit, but as I have indicated, above there is no way that
I at least can forsake windows in the foreseeable future.
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A near to ideal set-up I think is to have 2 machines on a simple LAN
using one as a Samba server running linux. That one does all
the internet stuff / printing / graphics/ file backups. This is also set up
to dual boot between Linux/W2K using Lilo in case the `real' W2K machine
loses its registry / develops the 'blue screen blues' at near-deadline time.
The other machine running W2K/W98 dual boot has all the `funny' hardware
and W2K development tools. (yes I do have several development tools
that will not run on W2K either !)
If these 2 machines are on different floors of the building, this has the
added advantage of providing much-needed exercise ;-)
Regards, RJP
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