FROM: Helmut Wabnig SUBJECT: Re: Linux DATE: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:32:35 +0200 NEWSGROUPS: sci.optics On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:10:45 +0000, Lou Boyd wrote: >Acme Optics wrote: >> >> Devoted LINUX users are like people with really ugly childeren. If you >> tell them to put a bag over their kid's head, they get really upset. >> >> LINUX is pretty cool, the interface is just a little on the >> under-developed side. I'd like to say I'm sure it will improve. >> >> All I'm sure of is that if we made our secretaries switch to LINUX, >> they would be investigating a lot of violence at my day job. >> >> Jim Klein > >I use Linux to control automated telescopes where I have to develop >software and interface it to hardware. I also use Linux for >networking. I use Win98 for CAD and Word Processing where GUI's are >important. A $40 switch box makes going back and forth very easy from >the same monitor, mouse, and keyboard. > >A saw and a hammer are both useful tools but I don't try to drive nails >with a saw or cut wood with a hammer. Why not use WINLINUX , works fine for me. Start Linux under Windows.... http://www.winlinux.net/download2.html w. FROM: David Lees SUBJECT: Re: Linux DATE: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:31:48 GMT NEWSGROUPS: sci.optics Hmmm, my impression is real hackers do everything from the emacs editor in unix/linux :) Seriously, emacs/xemacs is pretty powerful once you get used to it and it has the advantage of using the same keystrokes in both Windows and Linux/unix worlds. david lees Acme Optics wrote: > Gee Bob, I was gona just switch to the Linux command line and not use > the confusingly written GUI. I was hoping for a completely command > driven editor like edlin so I would not need to learn the GUI part of > vi. Maybe I should write one liike the command driven line editor > MEDIT in my program. > > Jim