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- From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 09:05:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Message-ID: <1igrp7INNdp8@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- References: <79132@hydra.gatech.EDU> <C0EG4y.74G@jti.com> <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com>
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- In article <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >
- >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?
-
- Well, I've got TeX and vi, with xdvi for previewing, so that takes care
- of the word processing :-)
-
- The programming environment is far superior to anything MS-DOS has to
- offer, and with f2c I've got a fairly reasonable FORTRAN compiler for
- work; when g77 comes out, I'll hurry and install it. Gnuplot takes
- care of the graphics side of things.
-
- I admit to still using Windows 3.1 for Excel, though :-)
- --
- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
- diagram.
-