RE: FN-FORUM: Microcock / Linux / Ramblings of a fat man

date posted 20th August 2003 17:07

Hi Dan,
I shall certainly be considering it especially as the Mono project is
becoming stable and reaching release 1.0...

BUT then it will be Microsoft on Linux :-)

Mark Anderson
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Dan
Norcott
Sent: 20 August 2003 16:50
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Subject: FN-FORUM: Microcock / Linux / Ramblings of a fat man



Hey hey

During a recent conversation with Andy about the annoying nature of XP's
draconian licensing policies, I started wondering about Linux. I've used it
quite a bit through SSH, to muck about with web servers and stuff, but
haven't really any experience of it as a desktop environment.

Spoke to a geekier chum, who used various linux GUIs for a year, and his
general feelings were that they're not quite there yet, but it was about a
year ago he made the switch back to windows. How many of you actually use
linux as a development environment - through GNOME or whatever - and do you
like it? It is stable? Is there a reasonably easy to configure setup that
delivers functionality comparable to windows without the whole 'pay bill'
scenario, or hours of tedious configuration? Are there big lists of things
that you can and can't do?

Bit of a broad question, I know, but if anyone has any thoughts, my brain
could do with a bit of filling up.

Ta,
Dan.



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