Hi > I work for a small company whose long-standing staff have long adopted an=20 > over-my-dead-body attitude towards change.
> LTSP would be a perfect, cost-effective replacement for this setup. > and stable, and I have installed OpenOffice and Konqueror (KDE) which is=20 > pretty much all they ever need to use. I have already checked whether=20 > OpenOffice will open our existing word/excel documents, and it does so=20 > quite happily. > My problem now is in finding an appropriate GUI. These users are all=20 > trained for windows. We have no time for extensive retraining, and so I=20 > need to find something as close to the windows look-n-feel as possible, but = I find icewm (ver 1.2, I've not tried latest recently, but a while ago the latest was aweful) very useful, in particular look at xp theme. I would not use open-office: I'm an arch windoze hater, so when multiple tries with OO to make a long table in word failed and tail-between-legs I tried MS word and finished the task in minutes, I reject OO. If they do the task AbiWord and Evolution with galeon make a nice suite. James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
