“One of the biggest questions that nearly every new user wonders
about is roughly: What am I going to do when I want to run (insert
your favorite application here)? And most new users who are
installing Linux already know the simple answer to this
ever-daunting question: keep an old 95 partition tucked away on
your hard drive, and just dual boot the machine. Simple enough. I
did it myself, and for a long while, it’s what I recommended to all
my friends thinking of converting to Linux. But things have
changed, and I’ve learned three things about the Linux community
that have made me change my mind. Here’s why:…”
“Word Perfect, Civilization-Call to Power, and Quake III Arena.
Applications that rank among the most significant for the Linux
community for one simple reason: you can run each native on a Linux
box. These three applications represent a growing trend among
software developers. Linux has moved on from being the latest
IT fad. It is now a viable development platform…“
“If you’re at all like I was when I first made my transition to
Linux, I was really skeptical of the quality of open source
applications. Sure, I had heard of some cool applications like
Mozilla being produced under an open source model, but I figured
that quality application developed in this style were as rare as a
detailed error code from a Mac. Until, that is, I compiled
GIMP.”