This plays into a previous post about emulators vs. native applications. There are many main-stream applications that are native to Linux, such as word processors, spread sheets, presentation managers, budget and checkbook programs. Today, a large number of these are both free and open source. Most of the office suite products may import and export files in a variety of different file formats, including Microsoft. As Linux (and FreeBSD and commercial UNIXes) become more popular, more good (and bad) applications will come. Windows developers will have the incentive to port their products to Linux. On 28 Jun 2002 at 8:43, James.Rocks@equant.com wrote:
Yes ... I was saying to a friend that the difficulty I was experiencing as an advanced Windows user (is that regarded as offensive?) was breaking my habits and forcing ME (myself) over to Linux. HE said I could always use Wine and and I said I felt that rather defeated the object of moving to *nix which was to get away from MS and into *nix & opensource etc. Sure once I've figured out the serieous stuff I may try Wine or something like it but I want to see what Linux can do first!
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