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Title: M$ new stategy
Post by: Dean Mumby on April 22, 2002, 10:42:58 AM

Hi
has anybody read this yet ?
http://news.com.com/2010-1075-882846.html

It looks like it could cause a few problems for essg/sme ?

Any comments ?

Dean

Title: Re: M$ new stategy
Post by: Rick Evans on April 22, 2002, 03:50:19 PM

Very scary, I would change my entire office to Linux if I could just figure out how to make the fonts appear as crisply as they appear in windows. If someone can figure out a no hassle way to do that, Linux on the desktop would take off faster than it has already.

Title: Re: M$ new stategy
Post by: Dan G. on April 22, 2002, 10:18:04 PM

I doubt they will get far with this --- it's a boldface anticompetitive tactic.  Let's see them try to bring a suit...

DG

Title: Re: M$ new stategy
Post by: Dub Dublin on April 23, 2002, 09:42:44 AM

Rick Evans said: I would change my entire office to Linux if I could just figure out how to make the fonts appear as crisply as they appear in windows.

I have not tried this myself yet, but reportedly, the new Lycoris distro (formerly Redmond Linux) does a wonderful job of handling fonts and is perhaps the best Linux yet for desktop use.  (It's pretty much desktop-only, though, kind of the desktop focused equivalent of SME's focus on the server.  In fact, it doesn't even come with dev tools as standard, although they're available.)  Lycoris is based on Caldera, which is my favorite of all Linux distros, as it has the best managemant model I've seen, and was realy engineered, not just hacked together.  The new Mandrake is apparently also quite good in the font department, but again, I've not tried it yet.

I could do fine for general use with Linux and StarOffice 6, which is really quite impressive, but I more or less have to keep  one foot in the Windows world because there are no viable alternatives to Visio and, to a lesser degree, Project.  I use Visio both as a diagramming and drawing/CAD tool.  StarDraw could replace much of Visio, but it's not quite there yet, especially for data-driven diagrams.  As for CAD, the pickings are slim in the Linux world - there are a number of mediocre packages, but few good ones.  Sigh...maybe Ashlar will come through someday.

Title: Re: M$ new stategy
Post by: Steve on April 23, 2002, 09:53:44 AM

Unfortunately, I was unable to install Lycoris Linux on my Dell L933r.  Have anyone of you tried it on a Dell Inspiron 8100 Laptop?  I'm pretty sure it would run on my current e-smith server (cyrix MII-266, 128MB ram) but am not ready to get rid of e-smith!!

I personally recommend linux every chance I get!  (However, I must admit that I'm using my Win2k box right now)

Thanks for posting the article

Title: Re: M$ new stategy
Post by: dj_ramjet99 on April 23, 2002, 11:18:31 AM

Lycoris sets up very fast and within 15 minutes or so (on an PIII800, 256MB RAM) I was able to surf the net and access my e-smith box driven domain through their nifty network neighbourhood-alike (saves mounting stuff manually).

Pretty complete product once you install openoffice for the ole M$ office compatiability. As always, my onboard sound card fails to work...ah well.