Re: Linux Status, was Re: Compiler status
hey I received your mail three times...
about news stands: in france we have about seven magazines for linux as you
said, against only one dedicated to windows and two or three about mac that
re-appeared. others are more general. Linux won't yet replace M$ in the
enterprises, but is widespread in universities so it's a matter of time. The
government seems to introduce linux in some administrations, too.
Riwal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gebrandariz [SMTP:gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM]
>
> Not too sure about that, Ben. Maybe that's the case in North America and
> Europe, but in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, etc.) and
> also in Spain, it seems that everybody is at least experimenting with
> Linux,
> not just in their own home systems (partitioned disks, mostly) but also in
> all kind of commercial enterprises.
>
> Newsstands and libraries are carrying Linux distributions, software,
> articles, how-tos, and so on. A lot of business people are going slowly
> crazy about StarOffice. If this goes on, nobody will remember Win vs
> Linux,
> it'll just be Gnome vs KDE. Two monthly magazines+cdrom dedicated solely
> to
> Linux programming are selling quite well at nearly $10 each (1 peso = 1 US
> dollar), and the best and 'Users', the most popular general computer
> magazine in Argentina, is now nearly half Linux.
>
> Seen the Corel distribution? It's not exactly the best or most complete,
> but
> think of it in terms of a common, non-expert user, who really wants/needs
> a
> better Win95+Office without having to pirate or pay hundreds of dollars or
> upgrade to 128 MB and 20 MB HDs just because.
>
> Moreover, a lot of kids who never knew the joys of the command line and
> the
> 'manual' writing of code are discovering that Linux is fun!
>
> So, give it five years more.
>
> Gerardo E. Brandariz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben Fosberg <BenFosberg at WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 11:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Linux Status, was Re: Compiler status
>
>
> > Yes, I believe that about the web backbone, and believe that there are
> very good reasons
> > for the situation. Didn't mean to imply that Linux was not rapidly
> gaining
> the market
> > share it deserves, simply that it doesn't yet have anywhere near the
> massive number of
> > "hands-on" users that DOS has, even without considering - as someone
> else
> mentioned -
> > that Windoz is simply(?) a overly complex wrapper for DOS.
> >
>
>
>
>
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