Seems to be valid. But keep in mind they probably have a single app.

If that's the case, doesnt X /Gnome/KDE give such problems ?

Gnome, KDE ? Yes I think.
X in general ? No.

X seems to be slower than Win95/98 on 32M Ram

Gnome and KDE are. X is faster than even win95 without IE.

. Is there any middle path without using X

but with the functionalities of Lazarus on the usual Linux console terminals? I mean something like the old Clipper programs.

No. There is Turbo Vision though, but that is not available yet at this time, due to a rewrite because of copyright reasons.

Hi

In India, I have witnessed a peculiar phenomenon recently. A Consumer Federation Co-operative with retail outlets for consumables has started using a DOS based Software for all its operations .The files are Xbase ones. Now, why would somebody go for Dos based program when everything is on Windows and any machine nowadays has 32M Ram atleast? They tell me that stability is the key. They dont want frequent hang ups and death screens in the middle of a hectic retailing. May be true.

If that's the case, doesnt X /Gnome/KDE give such problems ? X seems to be slower than Win95/98 on 32M Ram. Is there any middle path without using X but with the functionalities of Lazarus on the usual Linux console terminals? I mean something like the old Clipper programs.

My idea is to introduce Linux here. Stability and virus freedom is the attraction.

regards

Nataraj S Narayanan
Synergy Computer Systems
Kochi, INDIA-683 503

In the begining was comand line or ...CLI
I think people are more productive without a guy
coze they have games and sometimes the
comands in the dos are easyer to remember than
the windozze and other gui's
At the bank near they use FoxPro(yucs...)
and Dos but it works I mean they learned to use the program this way
I'm not shure how stable they runing the system ;-)