If you've got Broadband or DSL, there's a linux distribution that runs
from a bootable CD without touching your windows installation. It comes
with ~1600 "packages" (i.e. Programs) installed. Among them:
GIMP (Image Editing) K-Office (read and write MS Office Documents - Some
limitations though) openoffice (Another Office Suite) Konqueror
(Webbrowser) and a load of other stuff. Minimum System Requirements: A
bootable cdrom drive (4x spedd or better recommended) Pentium II and ~96
MB Ram. You can find links to the ftp and http download servers for the
iso images (can be burned with nero etc.) at http://www.knopper.net
If you are on a low bandwith box, I'll mail one on a per request basis -
contact me off list at jan.sturm@xxxxxxx.
Configurations you make can be saved on a floppy or USB stick.
If you have bucks to spare - SWITCH (www.apple.com !!! :-O )
bests,
Jan
Jan Steinman 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.
But if you want to run popular applications (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer,
Photoshop, etc.) AND Unix at the same time, without re-booting, you'll have to
get a Mac. It works beautifully. I've got 20 applications open, and had them
open for over a week, including a Unix terminal window and numerous Unix
servers. It never crashes:
www:/Users/jan: uptime
11:57AM up 115 days, 20:16, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
The last time my server was down was to install an OS update.
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