From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Sat Apr 20 2002 - 14:23:22 EDT
> To Alan Horkan:
>
> Sometimes in the course of x86 computing, using M$ OS's becomes
> unavoidable. I'm am currently stuck in this situation at the moment.
I agree that there are some situations when it is very hard to avoid.
Personally I dont even want to switch from windows98 to anything else,
although I do use various other operationing systems but none as much the
one from Redmond. Partially it is laziness, and inertia because I have
become very accustomed to doing things a certain way. Also win98 allows
me to play the few computer games i own. Probably biggest
reason to use windows 98 is that i have already paid for it (more than once).
> I also prefer open source software. However in the Windows environment
> there is no alternative to Opera... Mozilla is way too slow and a huge
> resource hog, not too mention unreliable. (Caused by M$) There are no
> others worth mentioning...
I am using Mozilla on windows and i am quite happy with it.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. If
you have not tried Mozilla recently it may have improved and become more
to your liking. I hope you will try it agian at some stage
You might consider trying K-Meleon is also available. It uses Mozilla's
rendering engine Gecko. http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Although i realise Opera users are very fond of the Tabbed Interface
(which continues to mystify me, explanations offlist if you must).
Sometimes I am willing to go out of my way to use open source software
or i should probably say "free software" because I value the extra freedom
(although find the terminology clunky and ineligant, why not "freedom
software", and i cannot believe Richard Stallman was actually pedantic
enough to pronounce the slash when he says Gnu/Linux, maybe he was
overemphasising to make a point, but i digress)
but i also definately beleive there is plenty of room for commercial
software and room for Proprietary software (Quake being a
great example)
I would have sworn I mailed you offlist, otherwise i might not have gone
at length.
The abiword developers have for as long as i have known them always tried
very hard to follow the standard and interoperate with MS Word unless
there was a very good reason to do otherwise.
If Opera can do a good job of displaying Abiword documents without any
need to reformat them then I will have to give it try (and find out what
is stopping Mozilla).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/
PS Gem Drop X, neat game. Frozen Bubble is my current favourite game. (i
dont expect anyone but Calvin to get this reference).
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