Subject: Re: New to linux. Can you....
From: volz (volz@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 13:57:45 AKST
Deneb:
My opinion:
for professional hacks: linux rocks!
for people who don't work with it a lot: You need a guru and be ready to spend
some time. I think Justin answered the specifics.
for me after working on linux systems for a couple of years. I find it
challenging still, but better than the alternative.
-Karl
>
>
>Hello Deneb..
>
>1) Many games now have Linux ports - the most recent and notable being
>Unreal 2003 - it has support right out of the box. Unreal Tournament,
>Quake 1/2/3, and many other games will run either natively, or with
>Wine. There's tons and tons of small games, like the solitares,
>minesweeper, asteroids, etc etc etc.. You can always dual-boot with
>Windows if being guarenteed to be able to play any game is a must-have
>priority.
>
>2) Yes.. I use sendmail with imap. I use Mozilla to read mail at home,
>and I have a webmail program set up so I can check my e-mail over the
>web when I'm not at home.
>
>3) Yes, definately. OpenOffice or StarOffice can read and write Office
>files with pretty good consistancy. They are just as full-featured as
>MSOffice. There's also KOffice, which is really good, and a few other
>office suites as well.
>
>There certainly is a learning curve coming from Windows to Linux, but
>the program quality is as good or better than Windows counterparts. The
>newer distrobutions (RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 9.2, SuSE 8.1) are a breeze to
>install and configure.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Justin
>
>
>
>c m wrote:
>> 1) run most games with the same or slightly more bugs then windows XP
>> 2) Run your own email server(no more hotmail)
>> 3) run basic office programs (able to handle things like word and excell(or
>> equivlents))
>>
>> Anyway.. I curently have a friend that is running a version of linux and has
>> had non stop trouble with it... is this the norm or the rareity.. I know
>> that linux has a reputation for stability but that will do me no good if all
>> the programs are all bugged to bit.. also it does me no good if my work is
>> not transferable to others...
>
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