RE: advantages

Hi!

Once I was asked that during an exhibition, and I just opened and run
simultaneously VariCAD with a 3D design, StarOffice, a StarCalc and a
StarWriter document and a presentation, WordPerfect, Scilab with a demo,
Octave with a demo, R-base with a demo, Netscape, GIMP, Emacs, and about
seven more applications under GNOME, and used four different virtual
consoles... in a 450 MHz P3 with 128 MB of RAM.

Advantages? Well, a lot of software for downloading to do almost anything.
If you use a GUI, any is as intuitive as Windows. Linux can be considered as
virus-free. Many users can have real privacy in a shared desktop.

The other day I was thinking about installing Linux and StarOffice 5.2 at
the office. You can configure Linux to start Linux graphically, open a login
window, open a window manager such as twm and open StarOffice as only window
automatically. When user leaves SO, then system logs him out automatically,
and system can automatically shut down or just wait for another user. No
posibility of any collateral damage. System can be programed to download and
upload e-mail, update itself, and backup archives with no user intervention.
This is actually idiot-proof. Anyway, office people (mortal users) use
mainly e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and browsers, which is what SO
has.

Nice thing, of course, is that under Linux, you have plenty of choices.

-Manuel.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]En nombre de John F.
Floren
Enviado el: Viernes, 14 de Junio de 2002 10:24 a.m.
Para: [email protected]
Asunto: advantages


I am constantly being asked why I say Linux is better than Windows, but I
cannot seem to make people understand what I mean, or even what Linux is. I
figure this is as good of a list to ask as any, so does anyone know of good
ways to make people understand what Linux really is and what it can do and
how it does these things better than Windows? I think more people would
comne over to using Linux if they really understood what it is.



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