From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy) Date: 8 Jan 1993 13:08:12 GMT
In article <1igrp7INNdp8@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
>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
Mailing-list - Don't know for sure, but you should be able to get some-
thing that can maintain a mailing list via anon ftp.
Address-book - rolo (rolodex for Unix, available on ftp.uu.net. Compiles
ootb (out-of-the-box) or with minor futzing.)
Word-processing - see below
Spreadsheet - see below
>>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?
Why'd you buy a computer in the first place? If you can't do with Linux
what you could do on DOS, get rid of Linux. If you can, then bag DOS. If
you want to keep both, do that, then. I think the point folks are trying
to make is that there's quite a bit of software available that can be made
to run on Linux that will let you do everything you want/need.
>Well, I've got TeX and vi, with xdvi for previewing, so that takes care
>of the word processing :-)
Of course, there's also Doc for those who want WYSIWYG. Let's not forget
IDraw, either.
>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 :-)
Have you tried out sc yet? I wouldn't be surprised if it really didn't
compare to Excel, but it seems to be pretty good (for my needs). So let's
see here...we have two versions of a spreadsheet - generic sc and xspread,
word processor (Doc), typesetting system ([La]TeX), text formatters (*roff),
editors, compilers, translators, interpretors, databases (Ingres and SHQL),
a rolodex, a drawing program, and lots more I'm unaware of. Linux seems to
be doing pretty well for being at v0.99 and non-funded, no? :)
>--
>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.
--Brian
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Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
talley@acadia.kodak.com