From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) Subject: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:42:21 GMT
I wrote:
>The way to make Linux applications happen is pure marketing savvy.
I was musing a number of hours after the above about where I go from
here with my newly-installed Linux system. If I throw out my
mailing-list, address-book, word-processing, and spreadsheet programs
previously used on the system, and manage to decide that I never want
to use them again, I still have the following question:
Now what?
The system has far superior communications capability than any DOS
machine. It's got Internet email, and could have netnews if I wanted
to install it. I started handing out the dialup number to a few of
my friends, but it occurs to me in this era of ubiquitous email
connectivity that there's little incentive for them to actually use
it as just another email drop. It's got a great software dev
environment, but at the end of a workday the last thing I want to do
is go home & type "g++" at a relatively slow computer's command prompt.
So please follow up on this thread with your answers to "now what?" What
useful things have you found you've been using your Linux system for since
you got it installed to your liking?
-rich