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- From: wonge@shnext34.ucslabs.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.221959.19464@sfu.ca>
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- Reply-To: jeffreyj@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:19:59 GMT
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- In article <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- > 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
-
- I've got Linux installed on my 486/33 system, and I'm having
- a ball. But when that question (Now what?) arises, I'm totally
- at loss. I was planning to get an Internet feed, and add
- dial-in capabilities, because I know a few of my friends who
- would LOVE to have the ability to read Internet stuff. But like,
- I'm having problems with TCP/IP right now, and like, the only thing
- I see happening right now is, me planning out this whole thing.
-
- Like if you look at it, Linux is a good system to run on, but
- if you or your family are more inclined towards DOS/Windows 3.1
- applications, it's quite a tough decision. Personally, I like
- Linux much better, but the point is that until good spreadsheet
- programs or wordprocessors are ported to Linux, I'm still gonna
- be unsure of keeping it up. Well, for wordproccessing, I'm
- sure people will suggest me using LaTeX (which I'm still not sure
- what the hell it is. Is it a wordproccessor?)
-
- And quite frankly, I've still got ways to go in order to get
- my Linux system to my liking. Right now, I'm minorly satisfied. I'd
- like to get dial-ins working PROPERLY.
-
- I'm not sure if I've made my point, but it goes along the same
- lines as what you're saying; that is, Now that I've got my system
- up and running to my satisfaction, what am I gonna do with it now?
-
- Anyone else want to enlighten me on the possibilities of Linux
- besides good multitasking. <grin>
-
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