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- From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- References: <79132@hydra.gatech.EDU> <C0EG4y.74G@jti.com> <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com>
- Organization: camaro
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:36:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.003616.150@camaro.uucp>
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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.
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- >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?
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