[vox-tech] Questions about building my own box

[Richard Crawford]

I agreed, Star Office 5.2 sucked.  But 6.0b is a vast improvement over 
5.2; a number of the major issues have been fixed -- it no longer does 
the hostile takeover of your desktop that it once did, a feture that 
drove me away from it some time ago.

Personally, I'm partial to WordPerfect and have been since 5.1 for DOS. 
  I'm saddened that Corel no longer supports to Linux edition of 
WordPerfect.

Netscape 4.7 is okay for Linux; haven't tried 6.2  Mozilla 0.9.7 is 
pretty good; I'm looking forward to seeing Mozilla 1.0 in about 2057 or 
so.  Konquerer is more than adequate for almost all of my browsing needs.

I've finally reached the point where I'm only loading Windows when I 
have to run our scanner off of my computer (I failed to research which 
scanners are compatible with Linux when I purchased one).


Jay Strauss wrote:

> Had I known the sh-t storm I was going to stir up, I'd have kept my fingers
> off the keyboard (But it has been funny nevertheless).
> 
> I'm still debating the build vs. buy.  But I have done some research and
> think if I build I'll get a Athlon 1500 (fast and cheap).  Now I've only got
> about 85 motherboards to look over.
> 
> I tried star office a year ago, didn't like a number of things, maybe it's
> gotten better, at the time Netscape and monzilla sucked, didn't try Opera, I
> never tried Koffice, I was luke warm on gnumeric, going to look at
> Evolution, own vmware (but realized I do one thing on the server, I run
> xterm (from there I vim and admin), the rest of the time I'm using
> Office,IE,Outlook so why not use them natively and get eXceed), maybe I'll
> have to learn DocBook/XML/Tex/LaTex (someday, right now I'm climbing the
> Java hill, going thru the Sun tutorials, I know I'll just stop sleeping)
> 
> I live in Chicago so can't do the face to face (though the thought of 3hr
> lines at O'hare, strip searches, gate delays, and the 4.5 hr flight is very
> attractive).
> 

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