This may seem odd, but on the "Feisty Laptop", I have precisely three applications that I use:
- Firefox - Thunderbird - OpenOffice.org On the server, I have an awful lot more, but these days, it's the servers that are doing all the "heavy lifting." Two years ago, we used lots of applications on the desktop. A year ago, we used a lot of server-side code for tracking our activities. Anything that requires input from more than one person in the team lives as an entry in a database/wiki/whatever rather than client-side apps. This year, a lot of the "intelligence" of the business is in the form of mashups - our geographical information about customers, for example is a mashup of our own code, google maps (for display) and code.google.com (for mapping UK postcodes to Lat/Long). Goodbye legacy mapping applications... Ajax has really helped here. I must confess that I still have a Windows laptop, also running OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird. The reason I still have a Windows laptop is that I still have a training course I run on a vertical application that is only available for Windows. I left the company last year, but every few months, I go back for a couple of days to train their trade customers :-) Because I have the Windows PC, I tend to use that for audio/video editing/CD/DVD production, and use (relatively old versions of) the Adobe products for those. I can't believe that I'll ever buy a Vista PC - Feisty just seems a superior product now for when I next change machines. Mark norman wrote: > One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of > us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of > free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly > these are easy to install and uninstall and generally work with the > hardware we have. Sometimes, like Mythtv for example, it is necessary to > get a new bit of hardware but the cost of such is relatively minimal. I > get tremendous pleasure from applications such as the Gimp, the many > sound and video applications and if I want to use something which > requires Widows then I will see if it will work in Crossover Office. > (Note, Crossover is not free but what you pay goes to help the > developers of Wine). > > Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and > what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out. > > Norman > > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
