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- From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- Message-ID: <10926@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 13:57:15 GMT
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- Peter is right that Linux is currently used mostly by developers/hackers.
- but it is also being used for "work". i run linux on my office pc (486/33)
- where i use it mainly for 1)email (kermit,ka9q), 2)text-editing (GNU Emacs)
- 3)data-processing (emacs, awk, misc utils, ingres) and 4)typesetting (TeX).
- some of the typesetting is math-related for which i also use gnuplot and
- the Calc symbolic package for emacs.
- i used to use all of these in dos/mswindows but they all work better in
- linux, both individually and, especially, coordinately. i also prefer the
- X window style to mswindows or os2 (tho X is, i think, a resource hog).
- i moved to linux since all the programs i use and like are UNIX based.
- besides, linux is much more fun.
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