Hi all, Darrell, I must agree with Janina here. Would like to know what it is you think Linux can't do. Now, please don't tell me MSWord or Excel or MSIE. Tell me functions of a desktop. A desktop, as far as I understand the term contains a word processor, a mail agent, possibly an audio reader/CD music player, connectivity to the Internet, a web browser, and possibly a news reader. If these are the functions you're looking for in a desktop, then Linux has all these. Don't confuse wanting Windows look-alikes with Linux desktop features, please. Don't confuse Windows Wannabe software with real word processors and mark-up languages. Don't confuse so-called need to have identical file formats for the power and ease of writing in TXT format all the time, or writing in a mark-up language which will do even more than the Windows stuff. If you want a desktop that has all the "general" functions of a desktop, then tell me any desktop that can match Emacspeak or speakup. These are real programs that are being used by people every single day, hour after hour. They seem to work just fine. Now, if you want Windows, then keep it! If you have to use Windows for your job, then do that. But until or unless you have worked in a Linux environment, on a Linux desktop, day after day, then please don't even try saying that Linux doesn't have a viable desktop. Besides, if you aren't interested in knowing about Linux and what it can do, then, frankly, why are you here? Why don't you do some considerably less talking and more listening. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
