linux as a workstation

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Mark Szidik on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:19:35AM -0400:
> Here is what I demoed:
> 
> twm (just to contrast it with the heavyweights)
> Gnome
> KDE
> Netscape (for familiarity and the mail client)
> Mozilla 9.x
> GIMP  (this really impressed them)
> Dia
> Gnumeric
> Abiword
> StarOffice 5.2  (I showed opening Word and Excel documents)
> 
> VMware - I ran out of time to demo it.
> 
> I also explained and demoed SSH forwarding of X applications from
> a server to my desktop.
> 
> They loved the demo portion.  So my suggestion to you is to
> dazzle them with a hands on demo.  Then explain that its all
> free!

I'd add GNUCash to that list, it's a good solid piece of software
from what I've seen.  Also, if you have a box with enough horsepower,
you might setup a DVD player (I've had success with vlc on FreeBSD).

-- 
Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Michigan State University	
"...a partial solution to the right problem is better than a complete
solution to the wrong one." (http://uiweb.com/issues/issue14.htm)