[Gllug] Hi!

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:16:52PM +0100, Matthew Smith wrote:

> There are also a lot of these people who have a history of using 
> Unix/Linux to run servers, not desktop computers.  Graphical interfaces 
> are undesirable on a server because they waste processor cycles and 
> because X has its share of security problems.  GUIs are the norm for 
> desktop use, and unless someone knows different, I don't believe there 
> are the text-only office applications that there were in the early 90s. 
>   I recall seeing people debate on the Usenet groups in the mid-1990s 
> and one of them said he didn't use a word processor; he used LaTeX for 
> all his text-producing needs, which struck me as both rather macho and 
> toffee-nosed towards people who don't want to learn a new markup 
> language just to write a letter.

Errrm, no. I write letters using troff (well, groff). Works well, means
that I can use my favourite editor (an emacs version) and nice small
source files. Also good for generating pretty documents from some program.
I occasionally use OoO, mainly when people send me a .doc or something.

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