I have been experimenting trying to get away from M$ OS/Application control for sometime.
I am behind the MD game a little using MD8.1, but was able to get a boxed MD7.2 here [SR129 = US$34] after starting to look at Linux with RH 5.2. The 8.1 came from linuxemporium.co.uk [mea culpa]. I am, however, having difficulty in doing some of the things I want to. Basically I am looking to clone what I have under W2K at home and MacOS 9.2 in the office. MD8.1 does everything I do on W2K and MacOS except some DTP work and Net2Phone [important when you are thousands of miles away from family in Riyadh]. Thought that I might be able to do this with win4lin/Win98SE but W4L seems challenged when asked to record. Are there any ways under Linux of doing PC2Phone? I cope with the DTP on MD using InDesign on W4L. However, that's a cop-out! I'd like to move to a totally MD solution outputting files to PDF so that they are readable on the other platforms. What should I use? Word/Excel/Powerpoint are admirably covered by OpenOffice.org both on MD8.1 and W2K and probably MacOS too. Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. Hope this doesn't have too many threads under the one cover! Rob in Riyadh wishing you a Joyeux Noel
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