TTK=Teobromina_Tool_Kit
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Joined: Oct. 2005 |
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Posted: Dec. 08 2005,16:11 |
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Hello.
I am a 'forced' user of Windows, due to the supremacy (just in numeric terms) of that OS in the daily use into the business world.
But I use to compare the solutions offered by both systems Linux and Windows, to see how have they solved the usual needs of a standard user, and more important from an strategic point of view, the possible evolution of the OSs in the future.
I am sure that the future will relly in free web-based applications, advertisment-supported, or as an alternative based in small and portable 'live' systems (like DSL), with data backup by pendrives.
Assumed that hypothesys, no matter what is the computer you will have at hand, the most important thing will be to have a fast connexion and the ability to boot from a CD and to use peripherals like pendrives with hot-plugging, efficiently.
I have made my own MyDSL CD, making the optional extensions that I really use to be the same applications that I use in Windows:
-OpenOffice to edit bussiness documents -Nvu to prepare HTML docs -Gimp to manipulate images
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The applications I mention made no different to use Windows or DSL Linux. I could connect easilly with my ftp server to edit my web from the live DSL Linux ...
The only problems I have noticed could sumarize as follows:
-I had to use an older version of Open Office (1.1.4 instead of the new OO 2.0b) because I did not have any JRE available to make the new OO work as it can (I have included a post in the section of MyDSL Apps), - and I have noticed that the pendrive is not totally 'hot-pluggable' (if it is not connected at boot time, mounting of the pendrive is difficult or impossible).
The gap that existed three years ago between Windows and Linux has been reduced dramatically.
I think that if we are able to solve small problems like the ones mentioned above, we can have a real alternative to Windows. I meant from the plain user point of view ...
Good luck to DSL developers, they are great!
Regards.
*JT.
PS. Visit my web. It is in Spanish, but I am including DSL as my primary Linux for my own 'live' multiboot project named TTK.
http://www.terra.es/personal2/jnvtdr
-------------- "What you do, do quickly." (John 13:27). Visit my page: http://www.telefonica.net/web2/ttk
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