Re: Linux

[Raphael rtennenbaum@xxxxxxxx]

my pleasure, flash. I am happy to help out anyone who wants to try using 
Ubuntu as his or her XyWrite platform. I think I've discussed with 
someone else on this list the possibility of putting together a how-to 
for XyWrite for the six or seven people who *might* be interested; 
stepping someone through it here would be a great way to get started.


my best recommendation to anyone who is curious: take out an old laptop, 
install it on that, and play around with it, or, failing that, download 
a DVD ISO, burn it, boot it -- then spend a little time seeing how well 
the things you use all day long (Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird) or the 
things very like them (LibreOffice) work. the days are long since gone 
when Linux was command-line only; Ubuntu's Unity has some extremely cool 
GUI stuff going on that puts BOTH Mac and Windows to shame.


-rafe

On 03/31/2014 02:17 AM, flash wrote:
> There are more things under the sun than are dreamed of by Microsoft.
> Thanks for reminding us, Rafe.