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- From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- Message-ID: <4270@eastman.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 13:08:12 GMT
- References: <C0EG4y.74G@jti.com> <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> <1igrp7INNdp8@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- In article <1igrp7INNdp8@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
- >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
-
- Mailing-list - Don't know for sure, but you should be able to get some-
- thing that can maintain a mailing list via anon ftp.
- Address-book - rolo (rolodex for Unix, available on ftp.uu.net. Compiles
- ootb (out-of-the-box) or with minor futzing.)
- Word-processing - see below
- Spreadsheet - see below
-
- >>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?
-
- Why'd you buy a computer in the first place? If you can't do with Linux
- what you could do on DOS, get rid of Linux. If you can, then bag DOS. If
- you want to keep both, do that, then. I think the point folks are trying
- to make is that there's quite a bit of software available that can be made
- to run on Linux that will let you do everything you want/need.
-
- >Well, I've got TeX and vi, with xdvi for previewing, so that takes care
- >of the word processing :-)
-
- Of course, there's also Doc for those who want WYSIWYG. Let's not forget
- IDraw, either.
-
- >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 :-)
-
- Have you tried out sc yet? I wouldn't be surprised if it really didn't
- compare to Excel, but it seems to be pretty good (for my needs). So let's
- see here...we have two versions of a spreadsheet - generic sc and xspread,
- word processor (Doc), typesetting system ([La]TeX), text formatters (*roff),
- editors, compilers, translators, interpretors, databases (Ingres and SHQL),
- a rolodex, a drawing program, and lots more I'm unaware of. Linux seems to
- be doing pretty well for being at v0.99 and non-funded, no? :)
-
- >--
- >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.
-
- --Brian
- __________
- Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
- talley@acadia.kodak.com
-
-