[clue-talk] Linux auto-install DB and other stuff

[Greg Knaddison]

On 1/20/06, rex evans <rexfordevans at yahoo.com> wrote:
> For experimentation with Open Source
> packages, MS Windows is not practical;
> that is why I am thinking Linux and
> (recently) Mac.

As various migration projects around the world have shown, you can
start going "open source" on the "upper layers" of the user
environment and then once you get used to those "top layers" the
switch of the rest of the system is not as hard.

In less abstract terms, try out Cygwin (and it's myriad packages),
OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, the software in the OpenCD
project etc. and you can get a really good "open" experience on top of
your Windows system.  Then, the transition to a Linux/BSD operating
system is easier.

Regards,
Greg
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