From kragen@dnaco.net Wed Sep 30 11:52:56 1998 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:52:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen To: ddb@iowalaw.com Subject: Re: The Line on Linux Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: You write: Speaking of bloatware, WordPerfect for Linux is probably a translated rewrite of the Windows version. Reports are Linux WordPerfect is slick on a Pentium II but slow on a 486. I like choice. I haven't tried the Linux version of WordPerfect myself. Linux has a package called 'dosemu', which lets you run MS-DOS in a window and run things like WP5.1. (I haven't tried WP 5.1; dosemu has bugs in it still, and I don't know that WP5.1 would work. OTOH, dosemu works rather nicely for the things I've tried it for, and I'm not even using the latest version of dosemu.) WP5.1 is snappy on a 386. I imagine it would be much nicer on a Pentium on dosemu. WRT WP being a translated rewrite of the Windows version: I don't think it is. WP has supported Unix as long as I can remember, and Linux WP has been available for years. I could, of course, argue that lawyers should use TeX instead. But I don't think I'd get very far that way. :) Kragen -- Kragen Sitaker A well designed system must take people into account. . . . It's hard to build a system that provides strong authentication on top of systems that can be penetrated by knowing someone's mother's maiden name. -- Schneier