home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rpi!think.com!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!spdcc!jti.com!richb
- From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
- Subject: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- Message-ID: <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com>
- Sender: news@jti.com (News Admin)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: bart.jti.com
- Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA
- References: <79132@hydra.gatech.EDU> <C0EG4y.74G@jti.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:42:21 GMT
- Lines: 25
-
- I wrote:
- >The way to make Linux applications happen is pure marketing savvy.
-
- I was musing a number of hours after the above about where I go from
- here with my newly-installed Linux system. If I throw out my
- mailing-list, address-book, word-processing, and spreadsheet programs
- previously used on the system, and manage to decide that I never want
- to use them again, I still have the following question:
-
- Now what?
-
- The system has far superior communications capability than any DOS
- machine. It's got Internet email, and could have netnews if I wanted
- to install it. I started handing out the dialup number to a few of
- my friends, but it occurs to me in this era of ubiquitous email
- connectivity that there's little incentive for them to actually use
- it as just another email drop. It's got a great software dev
- environment, but at the end of a workday the last thing I want to do
- is go home & type "g++" at a relatively slow computer's command prompt.
-
- So please follow up on this thread with your answers to "now what?" What
- useful things have you found you've been using your Linux system for since
- you got it installed to your liking?
-
- -rich
-