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Linux is booming at 300 million installations!!

From: <neutrino_at_fmc.com>
Date: 1998/03/05
Message-ID: <34FEEB1A.4D44@fmc.com>#1/1

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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