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John Schinnerer
john at eco-living.net
Wed Jan 18 15:24:04 EST 2006
Aloha,
> My only regret is that
> Microsoft continues to play unfair with non-Microsoft
> development for the Windows platform (Firefox leaks
> badly and consumes a huge memory footprint in the
> first place, as do many third party efforts).
If one doesn't use Windows, this is a non-issue.
If one uses Windows...caveat emptor, they've made it clear how they play
the game.
With user/desktop-friendly linux distros proliferating, maturation of
sophisticated desktop/window managers such as KDE and Gnome, release of
OpenOffice 2.0 (which trumps Microsoft Office in fully supporting the de
facto international standard Oasis OpenDocument format), best of class
browser and mail apps such as Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird etc., all
the basic necessities of desktop computing are covered.
If that's too scary, just get a Mac with OSX, which under the hood is
based on an open source derivative of FreeBSD (called Darwin) and has
native versions of the above best of class internet apps available to
replace the still immature Safari and the occasional shortcomings of Mac
Mail. OpenOffice 2.0 is availabe too, though not native yet.
Either of the above will also take you almost entirely off the
virus/worm/spyware/adware hit list, as most of that is Windows-specific.
John S.
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