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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:25:34 -0800 To: SVLUG <svlug@svlug.org> Subject: Re: [svlug] linux home business sofware From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> begin Erik Steffl quotation: > There are of course other sources where to get the info on IDEs and > visual programming tools, but Debian's list of packages has the > advantage of being pre-sorted, and only functional [ones] are > included. (On Freshmeat (and similar sites), one has to go through > lots of beta/alpha/announcements-only.) Point noted. As it happened, I used a number of information sources, most notably Freshmeat and Sourceforge. (There are some fascinating things on the latter, even among the multitude of false hits I found. Over 10,000 projects hosted -- good heavens!) > Yes, forgot it's really JBuilder and didn't find it on your page. I've now added an "aka". > I just thought it might be useful to include a hint that the right > answer is MU. After all, there are bright minds who haven't been in > contact with operating system (and consider Win to be THE one), who > might get it. I could. But that would really be a different kind of essay. When one aims to make a point, it's usually wise to omit additional points one _might_ make, in the name of simplicity: One has to pick one's battles. ===