On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 03:24, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Do *you* disagree? I think Windows can be an acceptable solution for the home user, as long as the following conditions are met: The mail client should NOT be Outlook or Outlook Express. While both of these clients are perfectly capable of sending and receiving e-mail and have an adequate range of features, their susceptibility to worms and viruses makes them unacceptable for home users. I recommend that, if you're going to build a Windows computer for someone, build it with Eudora, Pegasus, or (my personal favorite) Mozilla Thunderbird. The web browser should also be replaced with something that is standards-compliant and renders pages with style sheets properly and is not vulnerable to hacks, worms, viruses, and other hijinks. Internet Explorer is a poor web browser compared to some of the other solutions out there. My favorite is Firebird, but I also recommend Mozilla and Opera. Netscape is not as stable as I would like (or, at least, wasn't the last time I looked at it -- version 7 or so). Office solutions should be replaced with products that are not locked in to proprietary document formats and/or are more feature-rich than MS Office. I recommend OpenOffice.org for most users, WordPerfect for people who honestly feel like they have to spend money. So with a Mozilla/OO.o suite of products installed instead of MS defaults, an acceptable home computer based on Windows can be built. For my purposes -- web development, primarily, but also writing and some basic graphics work -- I find that Linux fits my needs much better than Windows. And Evolution is perhaps the most feature-rich and powerful e-mail/calendar product I've used on any platform. Having said all that, I should confess that I *do* have a WIndows computer running; only because I once paid good money for a good set of graphics software packages (PhotoShop, Illustrator, etc.), and I find they're easier to use than some of the open source alternatives. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
