On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Chris Hunter wrote:

> Modern Linux distributions have overcome the problems of hardware
> compatablity - indeed, the latest Suse (on this box) supports more hardware
> varieties than Windoze manages.

I have several items that Windows doesn't support (for example: IBM
Thinkpad 600E USB ports, APLS Glidepoint keyboard, some old and/or oddball
network interfaces) that Linuc supports natively and perfectly.  This is
fact, not fiction.

> The software that's included with most Linux distributions is (for a
> Windoze user) astonishing.  Open Office is every bit as good as Win
> Office, and doesn't use huge amounts of hard disk space and fall over
> all the time.  The GIMP (graphics package) has almost as much
> functionality as a combination of Photoshop, PageMaker and
> Illustrator, comes with every distribution, and costs nothing!  My SQL
> is an amazingly powerful database, which comes free, too.....

Also true. at least to a point.  Most Linux distros come with soem really
good office type software, and of course ti can all be had for free
anyway.  The user interface is not always the same as what you would
expect from Windows, so it may take a day or two of playing around to get
up to speed, but that's to be expected since it's NOT WINDOWS.

RH 6, which Wagner tried, was Not Yet Ready for mass consumption,
regardless of what some magazine said.  Do you believe everything you read
in magazines?  ESPECIALLY computer magazines?  If so you're really, really
gullible.  RH7 was close, RH8 is much closer, though I really dislike a
lot of things RedHat does.  When I get some free time (coming soon), I
plan to do an out of the box desktop install and turn the faily loose on
it to see how it goes.

Dale

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