On Fri, 23 May 2003 12:03:09 -0700
Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >From: dolphans1@xxxxxxx
> >
> >have any of you ever played with the "new" Linux computer
> >operating software system?
> >
> >I was wondering if you had any opinions about it (pro-cons) and if
> >you know if you can run adobe photoshop on it?
>
> Big "con": you can't run ANY Windows applications, including
> Photoshop. But there's GIMP, an X-Windows free Photoshop wanna-be,
> and a lot of free GNU software. It tends to be much less
> sophisticated than Windows apps, though.
>
> The only "pro" I know of would be if you want to play with or learn
> Unix. But it gets tedious, booting back and forth from Linux (for
> playing and learning) and Windows (to do "real" work). The only
> other reason to use it is if you want to run a server. If you run
> Apache/PHP/MySQL/Postfix on Linux, you will be immune from all the
> viruses that infect Windows email and webservers. True, there are
> Windows versions of some of those packahes, but they just install
> and operate smoother on Unix.
Opinions differ. I use Linux as my only OS on both my laptop, desktop
and whatever else. According to your statement, then, I do not do
"real work"....I beg to differ!
Anyways, there are more appropriate forums for bashing eachothers
operating systems than an Olympus photography list - agreed?
--thomas
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://byzantium.inria.fr:8080/~voop
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