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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Linux is booming at 300 million installations!!
What??!! You STILL do not know LINUX!!!
LINUX is declared as the "NUMBER ONE" OS in USA by InfoWorld beating up Microsoft Windows 95/NT, OS/2, Mac!!
Buy linux cdrom now for $2+$5 shipping at -
http://www.lsl.com http://www.cheapbytes.com http://linuxcentral.com/ http://www.redhat.com
A single linux cdrom contains more than 1500 software packages!! Now, purchase a Intel/AMD/Cyrix box for $600 (without microsoft windows/DOS) from the local computer hardware store and save $300 by avoiding Microsoft Windows!!
Linux applications are at :
http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html
The contents of cdrom are as given below :-
RDBMS SQL Databases : PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org
MySQL - http://www.tcx.se Solid - http://www.solidtech.com Addabas - http://www.adabas.com YardSQL - http://www.yard.de
Spreadsheets : Teapot, WingZ
Desktop Publishing : SGML tools, LaTex, Jade, JadeTex
Desktop : KDE - http://www.kde.org
Lesstiff - A industry standard MOTIF tool
Web server: Apache
Microsoft Internet Explorer: Netscape browser/communicator for linux, LynX
Microsoft Win32 connectivity : SAMBA
Microsoft Word : Wordperfect 7.0, LyX, xdvi, Adobe Acrobat reader,
XWord, FrameMaker
Microsoft Office suite: StarOffice, ApplixWare
Microsoft Visual Basic: VisualTCL, SpecTCL
Microsoft Visual C++ : QT application framework C++
XWPE - X Windows programming environment VIBE
Microsoft Exchange Mail server: exmh package.
Microsoft JAVA : FreeBuilder Java IDE, JccWarrior, Wipeout, Vibe
Microsoft Windows for linux : WABI, WINE packages runs all Windows 3.1 programs
Microsoft Mail/Lotus CCMAIL : ZMail
Microsoft Scheduler/Personal productivity tools: See the Personal productivity
Tools at http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html
Microsoft Notepad : CRisp, vi, NEdit, Jed, EMACS, and several more...
MSDOS for linux : Dr. DOS from http://www.caldera.com runs all DOS programs
Progamming languages : C, C++, Java, Lisp, Fortran, Perl, Python, and millions more... Received on Thu Mar 05 1998 - 00:00:00 CST
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