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.. but OSX gives you Unix AND you can run Word /Powerpoint without rebooting. And you get a user-friendly ergonomic windowing system that kicks the **** out of XP/Vista/KDE/Gnome... best wishes Pete On 2 May 2009, at 11:32, Nicholas M Glykos wrote: > Dear All, > > We confuse scientific computing with the individual scientists' > computing > needs: just because a scientist has to write a grant application using > word, does not make windows a platform suitable for scientific > computing > (or anything else for that matter). Using computing machines for doing > science boils down to actually using computing machines to compute > things, > and for that you need a proper open-source, production-oriented, > stable > programming environment, ie. GNU/Linux. What individual scientists > prefer > for satisfying their desktop needs is interesting, but, at least to my > mind, largely irrelevant. > > My twopence, > Nicholas > > > -- > > > Dr Nicholas M. Glykos, Department of Molecular Biology > and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, > Dragana, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece, Tel/Fax (office) > +302551030620, > Ext.77620, Tel (lab) +302551030615, http://utopia.duth.gr/~glykos/