From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy) Date: 7 Jan 1993 09:05:43 GMT
In article <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
>
>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?
Well, I've got TeX and vi, with xdvi for previewing, so that takes care
of the word processing :-)
The programming environment is far superior to anything MS-DOS has to
offer, and with f2c I've got a fairly reasonable FORTRAN compiler for
work; when g77 comes out, I'll hurry and install it. Gnuplot takes
care of the graphics side of things.
I admit to still using Windows 3.1 for Excel, though :-)
-- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.