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Re: [OM] Re: Linux Operating System??????

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Linux Operating System??????
From: "Jan Sturm \(GMX\)" <jan.sturm@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 22:18:38 +0200
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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