Steven T. Hatton wrote:

Zentra,

You say that people tend to migrate over to Linux based applications. I have noticed that Mathematica and WordPerfect are available for Linux. I don't know how well they are selling. I'm expect that it is a bit of a social deviance to use software that you actually buy in the Linux community. On the other hand, if Linux were to become as easy to use as 95/NT for the uninitiated, and Linux were capable of running software that people already have invested money in, there would likely be a mass migration from M$ OSs to Linux.

Hi, I would like to know more about Mathematica, and WP7 I do have for Linux. I know that Star Office 5.0 (which will be out very soon) will Do OFFICE97 stuff (namely WORD97), had a German friend translate Star Divisions WWW site for me, as the anoucement is only in German for now. And 5.2 SuSE should bring all the (somewhat) latest stuff to us in an easy package.. I want a SUSE T-shirt!!!!!!!!!! (black please) hehehehe (you can get them) How about a coffee mug too :) (i dunno if they have em)

As far as running standard Win32 software on intel platforms goes, there is no need for emulating the CPU as is done with a Sparc. All that needs to be done is to emulate the Win32 API. I am not a stellar programmer, so that "all" could be a lot more than I am making it sound like. The main reason that I bring this up is not to dismiss the programming effort required, but to observe that the intel based Win32 programs should perform at least as well under Linux as under M$ OSs.

Let's not turn LInux into windows9X, although, you might say well all the software(retail) is made for them. With the trend seen today, you might say MS overwelms everything else, this might happen for a few more years, but I think it will start to die off. By 1999 NT4.0 will be around only, and thats Unix based(MS Unix), MS will cut off the life support for DOS/WIN.Old.. and more people will start complaining.

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Everyone had high hopes that SUN would continue with it, and get WABI to run win32's ; but they figure there really isn't a demand for it. Most linux users quickly switch to pure linux apps, or they dual boot to win95 or NT. zentara

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