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I do all you listed & more from my home desktop, work desktop, & Toshiba
Laptop all running Debian Linux & KDE2.2beta1 for the desktop.

email: Kmail
Browser: Konqueror, Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera
Office Suite: Star Office 5.2 or KOffice
Printing is straight forward using the new print wizard with KDE2.2beta1 (it
uses CUPS Common Unix Printing System)
Web Stuff is easy, choose your editor of choice, my favorites are Quanta &
Kate for coding HTML, PHP, Java, and Python.
Graphics for the web: The Gimp
Burn with command line cdrecord & choose from a multitude  of GUI's for
cdrecord (i use KonCD)
Streaming media: Real Player for Linux
DVD: Xine with the CSS stuff

oh yah...cost. Free.
I'm yet to find a doze app I can't replace on linux.

Later,
Peter Osborne
Carleton Technologies

On August 9, 2001 04:12 pm, David T Darnell wrote:
> I am interested to hear anyone's success story about living (as a computer
> professional) without using any Microsoft Windows at all.
>
> Running Microsoft applications on a non-Windows platform would be OK, but
> I'd like to here about survival sams Microsoft as well.
>
> As an example, I need to browse the web, access POP3 email, do word
> processing, spreadsheets, print to my OfficeJet, and maybe even build and
> upload complex web content.  Bonuses: burn CD-ROMS, view streaming media.
>
> Would also like to know the relative costs for software. (What does Excel
> for Linux cost compared to Excel for NT?)
>
> -Dave
>
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