From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy) Date: 9 Jan 1993 00:36:16 GMT
In article <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
>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?
EMPIRE!!!!! What else is there to life? Besides Z28's & Sex...
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