From: sen...@warp9.tnet.de (Igor Laera)
Subject: Applications
Date: 1995/05/13
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Hi out there

linux has two great problems: (maybe three :)

1) the installation is very very complicated

2) after installation you can do nothing with it, because there is no
   useful software for it

( 3) it is not from micros*ft. many people likes, to buy sh*tty software
    from a wellknown, marktetholding company )


My question is:

Is somebody programming a magic "Installation Program" that install Linux 
without knowledge of using compilers, devices and HOWTO´s ?

And is anybody working on, let me say "useful", software ? (okok, there are 
many who are calling fortune a useful program :-> ).
With "useful" i mean things like Works, DBase or Corel Draw. 

I know, that it is a great work to do a thing like "Billy´s" Winword, but so 
much drivers and kernel patches every day (hour ? :) )... maybe there are
some people who wan`t writing such application, but can´t do it alone.

I would see some (hopfully positive and constructive) replys to this mail.

thanx

Igor

# sen...@mail.tnet.de	- Munich-Germany, Next landing place of E.T.´s

From: iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Applications
Date: 1995/05/15
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In article <3p0kai$...@news.B-1.de.Contrib.Net> sen...@warp9.tnet.de (Igor Laera) 
writes:
>1) the installation is very very complicated

Depends on the distribution, and how much you install.

>And is anybody working on, let me say "useful", software ? (okok, there are 
>many who are calling fortune a useful program :-> ).
>With "useful" i mean things like Works, DBase or Corel Draw. 

SCO Corel Draw 3 runs fine with Linux, Flagship is a full Clipper language
compiler for Linux if you want to run DBase type stuff, and there are loads
of SQL servers. SCO Word Perfect is fine under Linux. There is quite a lot
of commercial software around for different things, and the rate of
appearance is increasing.

Alan