From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy) Date: 7 Jan 1993 13:57:15 GMT
Peter is right that Linux is currently used mostly by developers/hackers.
but it is also being used for "work". i run linux on my office pc (486/33)
where i use it mainly for 1)email (kermit,ka9q), 2)text-editing (GNU Emacs)
3)data-processing (emacs, awk, misc utils, ingres) and 4)typesetting (TeX).
some of the typesetting is math-related for which i also use gnuplot and
the Calc symbolic package for emacs.
i used to use all of these in dos/mswindows but they all work better in
linux, both individually and, especially, coordinately. i also prefer the
X window style to mswindows or os2 (tho X is, i think, a resource hog).
i moved to linux since all the programs i use and like are UNIX based.
besides, linux is much more fun.