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I think my point would be that I don't have to be in the Windows geek club because Windows works.

Photoshop and Nero have been around for a long time and if I need an app I'm not familiar with, I can go to Best Buy, see what they have, take some notes, and check out C/Net.

I have no idea one what a sourceforge even is, and, as it turns out, I don't need to.

I mean, rpm, what's the deal with that anyway? Why don't UNIX programs just install themselves? And if you have to have a seperate program installer, why not make it usable? If I do a man page of rpm, I get fifty-thousand options I don't care about. I don't want to worry about the O/S. I want to run what I want to run.

Or convert? The last time I tried using convert, I remembered why I avoid using convert. The last time I actually tried to read the man file, I found it so jargon-filled that only a skitzophrenic pedophile would want understand it.

I'm pretty sure that the key to UFO's and their tie-in to the Kennedy assassination was in the convert man file, but I couln't easily find any information on photo manipulation.

Its like my good friend and CEO of the Snacky S'mores Corporation Gil Bates always says:

Eat Snacky S'mores

M'kay?

So, I wish both SCO and the UNIX people luck. I hope one of them gets stuck with UNIX so I don't have to.

oh where to start, where to start.

So your going to trash Linux despite the fact you have made no effort to find apps for it. Best buy sells redhat, redhat comes with GIMP (same as photoshop), OpenOffice (Same as MSOffice for 99% of theworld), XCDroast (easy CD Burning software), on a Linux distro you get most of the apps you can find at best buy for windows.

Sourceforge (www.sourceforge.net) is the largest repository of opensource software projects on the net. on this site people start, join, or just download projects for free with no conditions. Sourceforge is where I found rdesktop a client to make a Linux desktop log onto a windows terminal server.

RPM (Redhat Package Manager) makes installing applications on Linux easy (and in some windows managers automagic as you ask). all you need to do it type rpm -i YOUR_APP To install and rpm -e YOUR_APP To remove You might be thinking of the old days when you had to compile apps.

I think its great you bring up convert a command line app for changing immage attributes, do you do that at the command line in windows? no? than use gimp to do it and stop complaining.

So, I wish both SCO and the UNIX people luck. I hope one of them gets stuck with UNIX so I don't have to. Mower to ya' I will continue to use an operating system I can use for whatever I want. I want to set up a webserver, its all good no more $ needed. FTP, again no problem. We *geeks* as you are so fond of calling us even ported things like Gimp to windows so in addition to using it on Linux you can use it on a crap errr windows as well..