[juneau-lug] Re: Fwd: Mapping a drive [dotcomcs@alaska.com]
- From: "Jeremy Hansen" <jeremyh@xxxxxxx>
- To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 22:58:18 -0900
Pascal,
If you want to use Linux you are going to have to adapt and work for it, it
is still premature in the way of a full blown desktop solution, and
honestly, I have mixed feelings about Linux ever becoming the true desktop
solution because it makes a beautiful server platform, though demand to move
away from Microsoft's costly products is growing and is driving consumers
towards cheaper solutions and encouraging the development of replacement
solutions.
Mandrake offers many things that 'you know who' doesn't and vice versa. It
is going to be extremely hard for users to make the move from applications
suites like Microsoft OfficeXP for example, robust, colorful, full (I mean
bloated) featured etc. to Office solutions like
StarOffice/OpenOffice/KOffice and standalone application like Abiword. If
you don't care and are perfectly happy like myself w/ Vi as the only text
editor in existence than I say make the jump to Linux without a lot of work.
You don't need to map drives anymore NFS mounts are wonderful.
As for fonts, well, increase your font size in Netscape, both 'default size'
and 'scaling', it will certaintly help out, or use Lynx, a real web browser.
:) Fonts are something that are going to take some time, but they are
getting alot better.
Check out the new Redhat 8.0, SuSe 8.1, or Lindows, they are getting there
in the way of supporting the standard desktop needs of users (Word
Processors, Spreadsheet Applications, Presentation, Money Management, etc.)
right out of the box, plus you can have a real "Personal Web Server" (Not
IIS) that is the same as a real "Enterprise Web Server."
Here is my opinion, if you want to switch to Linux, go for it... I moved to
Linux on my desktop at work and have a several installations at home and I
love it, but for it to work for you and with your cool toys, like digital
cameras, pdas, scanners, digital tablets, you are going to have to work at
it. Linux is catching up. If you have a need to copy and paste and drag and
drop a bank account from Quicken into Microsoft Access then in to a Word
Document then back into MSPaint stay with Microsoft because cross
application development is not the focus in Linux at this time and probably
won't be for awhile.
-- OTHERWISE, WELCOME ABOARD!!! --
Sincerely,
Jeremy C. Hansen
PS. I used Windows write this e-mail and I feel dirty, but unfortunately I
have a Messaging and Scheduling Class (Outlook XP) and if I don't I will
received teachers atachments from my teachers labeled winmail.dat because
Microsoft had to development MSRTF that mail servers eat and only Outlook
2000/XP know how to make sense of. From that you should infer why one
Windows box is almost mandatory if you are active among a large community of
average users (Teachers, Employees, Employers, Family).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juneau Linux Users Group" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: [juneau-lug] Fwd: Mapping a drive [dotcomcs@xxxxxxxxxx]
>
> On 2002.11.30 23:07 Pascal Vincent wrote:
> Good morning all!
>
> I am using mandrake for few months now and I am trying to dump my XP
> box but there is still many things that I am no capable of doing with
> my linux box. If anyone has some time...thanks for the help!
>
> 1) on windows you can simply map a drive on a network by right clicking
> on My computer and then select Map Network drive...how do you that on a
> linux box?
>
> 2) I use mozilla on my linux box ( and on XP as well but that is
> irrelevant) an the fonts are sometimes impossible to read. I tried
> many changes but I always get to some pages on the web that are
> difficult to read...any idea?
>
> 3) what is the best way to use some windows applications under linux
> such as office?
> Thanks for the suggestions. I have not been involved with the club
> yet but I am following every topic you guys are suggesting on the
> emails but I have to admit that most of it goes over my head :)
>
> - pascal
>
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