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| Myths And Tales About Linux |
There are a lot of myths and tales about Linux. See our comments to some of them.
- Linux would not be userfriendly.
On this issue, we would say only this :
Linux is userfriendly, it's just picky about who's friend it is.
- There would not be a commercial support available for Linux.
Wrong. Big companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard,
Silicon Graphics or Sun Microsystems actually do offer service and support
Linux. In particular, they even support OpenSource
Software Development or support GNU-Projects.
Furthermore there is a countless number of IT Service Companies which offer full customer support for Linux systems.
By the way, netzwerk-aktiv GmbH is offering support for your Linux systems and projects as well.
- There would not be much software available for Linux.
Wrong again. There are more than 30 programms or tools appearing daily on freshmeat.net
for Linux and other UNIX systems.
For Desktop applications recently two new and amazing products were released :
Evolution und Nautilus.
Evolution is a Workgroup-Tool and Information Manager, Nautilus is a File Manager and Browser.
You can get some impressions on both when looking at following screenshots. They were made on one of our systems (SuSE-Linux 7.1)
| Nautilus in Aktion |
1600 x 1200 |
1024 x 768 |
800 x 600 |
Version 1.0.4, Gnome 1.4 |
| Evolution in Aktion |
1600 x 1200 |
1024 x 768 |
800 x 600 |
Version 0.10, Gnome 1.4 |
Nautilus |
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Evolution |
New screen shots with KDE 3 and most current applications (May 18th, 2002)
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This screenshot shows following applications: XFree-4.20 with Xinerama Extension (Multihead)
and display resolution of 3200x1200 pixels, KDE 3 with Mosfet's Liquid Extension, Mozilla 1.0RC2, Nautilus 1.0.6, Evolution 1.0.5, GKrellm with some plugins and surely
WebCam and TV-Out with Program Guide via EPG. All runs on a "managed" SuSE-7.1. It's a relaxing work on two 19" screens, by the way...
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