Sunday, November 3, 2002

OpenForBusiness Magazine Says You Can Get By With Linux Just Fine. I don't have recent experience with Linux as a desktop environment, but I have several friends who do. I've asked if I should consider moving to it. Their unanimous answer has been negative. Principally because I need features in my office-equivalent application (forced on me by a book publisher) that none of the Open Source products have. Namely, revision-tracking with comments and style sheet compatibility. Frankly, in all of my other Office-type needs, OpenOffice on Windows 2000 would do nicely (and presumably its Linux equivalent would do as well or better). But as far as I can tell, there is no good Office replacement on OS X yet. Which sort of agrees with this guy's point: I'd probably be better off with Linux than with OS X since neither meets that Office need. Hmmmmmmm The Point Not Taken: "No matter how often it has been said, it seems that many GNU/Linux and Macintosh users refuse to see the obvious. (Open For Business via MyAppleMenu)" Source: myapplemenu 12:41:36 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

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