To All:
If anyone would like to just dabble in Linux for
fun or otherwise, check out the latest from
Ubunto (www.ubunto.com), the organization that
has made the Linux installation user friendly. It
is a free download, which you can test drive
without installing. If you want to subsequently
install in a dual boot mode (or by itself), the
install time is amazingly short, and only one
re-boot at the end, and it works! Open Office is
supplied for office applications, along with
Firefox as the browser. There are many other
applications supplied or available, all for
free. A far cry from the days when installing
Linux was not for the faint of heart. Seems I
recall that our fearless leader, A. Razzak Memon,
is creating an Rbase version in Linux.
Steve
At 06:07 PM 8/20/2008, you wrote:
John,
Open Office 3.0 (currently beta, scheduled for release in September) does
know how to deal with M$ Office 07.
-- cheers Clarence
> Well, since you are asking, I don't run Windows. I use Linux
> exclusively on my desktop at work (Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise
> Desktop 10.0) and at home OpenSuSE 10.2.
>
> I use VMWare Server in both locations to run Windows XP apps that
> won't run in the Wine environment.
>
> I use OpenOffice.org for all of my office suite needs, and Evolution
> for mail. The only issue that I've come across is that Word '07
> documents won't open in ooO, but I'm sure that soon someone will crack
> open M$'s proprietary encoding, and bring us an import filter for that as
> well.
>
> I'd say, give up on M$. Linux runs faster, lighter, and if you need
> it, run Borg software in a VM...DON'T BE ASSIMILATED!!! <- reference
> to STNG for you Trekkies out there.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Gunnar Ekblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote: > For 2 days I have run my new laptop with vista on it. > I still
> have a possibilty to go back to XP. > I also have instaled open office.
> insted of MS-office > From an RBASE point of view vista is almost fine
> (almost I say since my > national charcters åäö ÅÄÖ dont work in RBASE dos
> version, never mind I dont > use dos version very much longer) > >
> Question > Shall I revert back to XP? > Shall I stay with open office and
> give up MS-Office? > > > >
>
>
>
> --
> John Croson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://pcnorb.blogspot.com/
> http://pcnorb.homelinux.org/
>
>
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Clarence W. Robison, P.E.
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