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Hi! Once I was asked that during an exhibition, and I just opened and run simultaneously VariCAD with a 3D design, StarOffice, a StarCalc and a StarWriter document and a presentation, WordPerfect, Scilab with a demo, Octave with a demo, R-base with a demo, Netscape, GIMP, Emacs, and about seven more applications under GNOME, and used four different virtual consoles... in a 450 MHz P3 with 128 MB of RAM. Advantages? Well, a lot of software for downloading to do almost anything. If you use a GUI, any is as intuitive as Windows. Linux can be considered as virus-free. Many users can have real privacy in a shared desktop. The other day I was thinking about installing Linux and StarOffice 5.2 at the office. You can configure Linux to start Linux graphically, open a login window, open a window manager such as twm and open StarOffice as only window automatically. When user leaves SO, then system logs him out automatically, and system can automatically shut down or just wait for another user. No posibility of any collateral damage. System can be programed to download and upload e-mail, update itself, and backup archives with no user intervention. This is actually idiot-proof. Anyway, office people (mortal users) use mainly e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and browsers, which is what SO has. Nice thing, of course, is that under Linux, you have plenty of choices. -Manuel. -----Mensaje original----- De: redhat-migration-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:redhat-migration-list-admin@redhat.com]En nombre de John F. Floren Enviado el: Viernes, 14 de Junio de 2002 10:24 a.m. Para: redhat-migration-list@redhat.com Asunto: advantages I am constantly being asked why I say Linux is better than Windows, but I cannot seem to make people understand what I mean, or even what Linux is. I figure this is as good of a list to ask as any, so does anyone know of good ways to make people understand what Linux really is and what it can do and how it does these things better than Windows? I think more people would comne over to using Linux if they really understood what it is. _______________________________________________ Redhat-migration-list mailing list Redhat-migration-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-migration-list