On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:00, john rigby wrote: > Hi folks, > Is there anyone out there who has simply put in the full distro CDs > and obtained a working ( really working - Office suite, > communications, ViaVoice, replacement for FrontPage98) and a few > user utilities? WITHOUT RESORTING TO ARCANE COMMAND LINE > APPROACHES.
As I said, every Mandrake from 7.2 on has worked out of the box on both my home computer (standard 2CD install) and my office computer (FTP install) with the sole exception that I mentioned of needing to type "sndconfig" to get my sound card working. Win 98 actually gave me more graphic card headaches (no built-in drivers for S3Trio or Trident, IRQ conflicts after upgrading to a GeForce II). For office, the only complete office suite you get with the standard download distro is koffice, which I don't like very much, but Open Office worked fine first time (except for not having Turkish fonts, which was soon remedied). There again, do you get Microsoft Office on your Windows CD? And don't forget, if it's document processing you're after, most Linux distros include LaTeX and LyX. Ever try setting up LaTeX/LyX for Windows? No fun. > Anyone got Win4lin going in one go? > Anyone got WINE to run anything? FrontPage? Wine is still in development, so it's not fair to expect it to run every Windows app. It certainly runs some things - I used to play StarCraft with it. I wish it would run MS Word better, not that I ever use it, but it would stop my workmates rebooting my office computer into Windows every time they want to write a document. Front Page - who the hell needs that? Unless, of course, you enjoy creating websites that are a pain for users. If you can't be bothered with coding HTML (and I accept that a lot of people can't), then Netscape Composer 6.*, Star/Open Office and Amaya all give you WYSIWYG editing. Robin -- "Give me the views, and I'll give you the arguments." - Chrysippus Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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