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On Wed, 20 May 1998 21:43:48 -0600, Ray Bay wrote: >I've decided to use Unix on my new laptop... and am very comfortable using >Unix/Linix, etc, on a server... but have never used it on a laptop or for >personal use. > I ran Debian alongside Warp 3 at one time on my 701, and it ran quite nicely, faster than Windows 95 (which I erased and gave to Linux anyways). >Can someone recommend a unix-compatible word processor, communications >software, spreadsheet, and database for me to start off with. Cost isn't >a major issue. > If cost isn't a major issue, then you can go with either Linux (free, except for the price of a CD-ROM) or something like SCO UNIX or Sun Solaris. I don't know much about SCO, all I know about Solaris is that it doesn't work on my SPARCbook (for some unknown reason). For a word processor, many people like emacs or xemacs. I've never really used it, because my stupid 486 motherboards died (I've gone through 3 this month!), so I can't practice. I think there is an x spreadsheet also. Are you primarily going to run in VIO (text mode) or GUI? I suppose you might also be able to use vi for word processing as well. >Name of a vendor would be nice as well. > Sun? SCO? Good luck. Oh, BTW, I forgot, what machine is this all going on? -- Paul Khoury | <pkhoury@loop.com> | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS http://warped.cswnet.com/~pkhoury/index.html (you can link to the TP Assistant from here) Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4 and Sun Solaris 2.4