Opera is one of the few pieces of commercial software I used on Linux, but I find I now use Phoenix, the stripped down version of Mozilla. Now that Flash has been fixed for LTSP I rarely use anything else. I'd also suggest Sylpheed as a light email client.
John On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:17:45 +0000 Louis Sabet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John, > > I think with my budget as it stands, our sales department don't have much > of a choice as to whether they want LTSP or not. > > Essentially there isn't a good enough reason for them to need windows' > fancy features, and plenty of good reasons for them to use LTSP. > > Upper management are already on board (of-course they are, I'm saving them > money!), so really it's just a case of trying to minimise confusion for my > users. > > What I've actually managed to accomplish since my original email is to > convince a friend of mine who works in the sales department to just use an > etherboot disk every now and again. > > Since he's "linux-curious", he seemed quite happy to give it a go. So > hopefully, I should get the receptionist effect here too! > > My setup has changed wildly since my original mail thanks to everyone's > replies. > > Windowmanager is now qvwm - I found this to be excellent. It looks like > win95, does ALT-TAB perfectly, taskbar works a treat, all the window > behaviour is identical to MS, and everything is nicely configurable. Icons > are a pain since you have to manually associate them to applications, but > we're talking about a small amount of apps here, so it's not too much of a > pain. > > I changed browsers from konqueror (which I used to think was great) to > Opera - the $30 cost per license is well worth it IMO, since it offers the > best combination of useability (something I don't think mozilla ever fully > achieved), and an ability to look at 90% of web-pages without getting > totally confused. After a while of using konqueror I realised that it > really isn't that stable yet (even in kde3), and its interpretation of some > web-pages (including our own) is far from acceptable. > > I've stuck with OpenOffice for the time being as it seems relatively fast > (I had doubts about its speed, since I always found staroffice to be a bit > of a snail), and I'm using mulberry for mail (www.cyrusoft.com) - for those > of you that don't know it I urge you to give it a go. > > I'm finally feeling like I can actually roll this out without too much fuss > being made, and I'm confident that the users will actually appreciate the > change now, as there are some definite improvements over windows. > > Strangely, my LTSP setup seems faster than windows on the local machine - > not complaining though! > > Thanks to all, > > L > > > --On Friday, January 17, 2003 17:11:10 +0000 John Ingleby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Louis, > > > > I've been working with LTSP (in fact K12LTSP) for nearly a year now, and > > couldn't resist checking your .co.uk web addresses. It turns out we're > > less than 10 miles apart! > > > > However, I don't have a magic answer to your question. I tend to take > > the path of least resistance: if it ain't broke don't fix it. In other > > words, if your sales people don't see good reasons to switch to Linux, > > maybe the time hasn't quite arrived. > > > > Sooner or later, PCs break down, fans wear out, hard disks need > > replacing, etc. When that happens, and there's no money around, then you > > stand a better chance of putting your case across. > > > > One success story I came across involved switching over just one > > high-profile user (reception), who told everyone else how easy and > > reliable her system is. Then it became much easier to get the financial > > case accepted. > > > > Please feel free to get in touch if you need any help, or even just for > > moral support! > > > > Regards, > > > > John Ingleby > > ************ > > www.coronet.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Louis Sabet - IT Manager > http://www.mobiles.co.uk > http://www.gadgets.co.uk > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _____________________________________________________________________ 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
