The main reason, as I recall reading somewhere that Microsoft will NOT release a office version for other *Nix's is because X contains no standard GUI, and OSX has auqa.
And this day in age, we are outgrowing office with apps for unix systems which contain more features and a lot less (if even) security flaws.
Office and its over priced app suite is bound to end up dying someday.
My ISP (IC&C Webzone) is a fairly large now corp. ISP which has knocked out a ton of competition in many of the "few" large cities in Oklahoma, they provide wonderful support and also the techs are IRC junkies... works out kind of nice, but I still wonder about all the ISP's they might of knocked out during their success....
I ran slackware 3.4 on my thinkpad 310ED for years just fine, just the soundcard was a bit shakey, but the rest of the hardware worked fine, the modem however was a external USR, so it didnt much matter.. but the IBM making a laptop "able" to run "Red Hat" Linux is crap.. I run redhat on my server and home machine, slack on my laptop, debian on another machine, but being forced to run a certain distributions is like being forced to use windows or whatever.
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The applications to play media will be what makes Linux on the desktop..
We can have 400 different GUI managers, yet without applications to play media files, or do multimedia events, people will look elsewhere..
This sucks for those of us that do a lot of shopping via eBay.. but if people can con you at garage sells, this is no different..
It seems like IBM is making a real effort to be involved in the development of Linux
they sure are investing a lot of time..
Sun Microsystems is just mad because IBM made it there before they did?
Wireless in airports would be nice to kill time between those overlays.
Gotta love a 3.5ton bbq in your backyard.
The main reason, as I recall reading somewhere that Microsoft will NOT release a office version for other *Nix's is because X contains no standard GUI, and OSX has auqa.
And this day in age, we are outgrowing office with apps for unix systems which contain more features and a lot less (if even) security flaws.
Office and its over priced app suite is bound to end up dying someday.
My ISP (IC&C Webzone) is a fairly large now corp. ISP which has knocked out a ton of competition in many of the "few" large cities in Oklahoma, they provide wonderful support and also the techs are IRC junkies... works out kind of nice, but I still wonder about all the ISP's they might of knocked out during their success....
bout time they released the specs, damn these sound cool.
http://www.LinuxFreak.org/news.db/?id=91 article was posted 12/21/1999, basically a backwards version of Microsoft's little article.
I ran slackware 3.4 on my thinkpad 310ED for years just fine, just the soundcard was a bit shakey, but the rest of the hardware worked fine, the modem however was a external USR, so it didnt much matter.. but the IBM making a laptop "able" to run "Red Hat" Linux is crap.. I run redhat on my server and home machine, slack on my laptop, debian on another machine, but being forced to run a certain distributions is like being forced to use windows or whatever.