ÅtwÃrtk 17 februara 200514:32 "Dr. IglÃi GÃbor" pisaÅe: > >The advantages could be many: > > > >- Would run on almost all x86 hardware; thoroughly transportable > >- Prevent use of your presentation without your approval > >- Easy distribution by CD > > > >-- Mike
> I've already heard of that (with Knoppix). The problem is that you can't > say that Linux will run on all available PC hardware. Let's take for > example the problem of a secondary displays: you can't guarantee that > the current Linux X drivers will handle all types of video cards and you > can easily find yourself in a situation when the presentation won't go > out to the secondary (projector) device. Then you just stand there with > your CD in hand and... I never had such a problem (and I'm using linux for 13 years now). Much more probable is that your knoppix boot sequence will choke on some weird BIOS and that it won't boot at all. But then, take a presentation with unicode chars from a Mac and try to run it on Powerpoint under Windows and you will already see how compatibility crumbles down on you. When I was organizing a conference, I received several presentations by email beforehand because my colleagues wanted to make sure that it will show up correctly -- mind you, they were expecting me to use Powerpoint (they didn't have the foggiest it would be OO and Impress under Linux) and they still were in doubt about the compatibility to their own PP presentations :-) If you want to be dead sure, you have to take slides, or bring your own computer. But then, you could always send the people organizing the conference a knoppix CD beforehand and ask them whether it boots. Cheers Edi -- Prof. Dr. Eduard Werner / Edward Wornar Institut fÃr Sorabistik, UniversitÃt Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15, 04109 Leipzig GNU PG public key on http://www.keyserver.net There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
