The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micro$oft go bankrupt?

[Ashley Benton]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, anthony baldwin <photodharma at gmail.com>wrote:

> marc wrote:
> > Pete Holsberg said:
> >
> >> laptop wrote:
> >>> I have followed this discussion with great interest being an 80+ years
> >>> old user. My 70+ years old brother recently changed to Ubuntu and
> >>> alternates, as needed with Windows. From observation, the main reason
> >>> why Windows persists, particularly with young people, is the desire to
> >>> play games with as little difficulty as possible. If only Linux could
> >>> play all the Windows games we would have a winner.
> >> There are a few apps for which I have not found Linux-equivalents. For
> >> example, Adobe Dreamweaver.
> >
> > Hurrah!
> >
> > But seriously, what can you do in DW that modern tools didn't surpass
> > years ago. (I dislike DW with a passion, in case you hadn't guessed!)
> >
>
> Modern tools?
> Honestly, I prefer to build my sites in a text editor...
> I recommend TclText (http://freshmeat.net/projects/tickletext/).
> It has ftp to DL/upload pages, opens a browser for preview, and has all
> kinds of other useful feature for editing various types of scripts and
> programs, LaTeX, posting to livejournal/insanejournal, and other fun stuff.
> Of course, maybe I like it because I wrote it.
>
> /tony
>
> --
>

Would it have spelling checker as we type too? I use blue fish and it
doesn't correct my spelling mistakes (which happens to often since English
is not my primary language) . The text editor correct but not when I write
only if I check I am more looking for something like open office does.

Thanks

Meg



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