Manish Jethani spewed into the ether:

Speed - Programs on Linux seem to run faster than their Windows counterparts.

Staroffice is bad in this respect.

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Also, you can show aj a demo of KDE 2 or Ximian GNOME. That should be enough to lure anyone, my guess.

And windowmaker also. It rocks.

DON'T tell aj about the command line, pipes, fifos, POSIX compliance, the UNIX philosophy, mail/news/web servers, etc. You'll scare him away.

This depends on the aj though. You can definitely interest someone using VSNL and troubled by the email policy about how to run a mail server. But stay away from sendmail.cf. I would suggest postfix or qmail for a demo. Setup two machines, one as a workstation and the other as a server. That will help in attracting the appropriate kind of crowd.

Devdas Bhagat

Manish J.

-- yo-yo, n.: Something that is occasionally up but normally down. (see also Computer).

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