Re: [ilugd] [Very-old-topic] Distro having best compatibility with MS related products
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: My strong recommendation would be to not switch to Linux. ... ... Well, thanks everyone for the useful comments and suggestions, I am more then convinced not to try it this way. Besides, as Raj rightly said, If she can't use it this way right now, the least we could do is to scare her away. Thanks again. Regards Smruti -- I am a dreamer ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] [Very-old-topic] Distro having best compatibility with MS related products
snipped So, below are some of the things that are done in the office in a regular office. ~Connect to Windows Terminal Server for remote operations tsclient works well for Microsoft RDP. ~Mail Exchanging (Mail server is MS Exchange) and all other clients are Outlook evolution with evolution-exchange ~Intranet website has issues with Firefox(Well, honestly doesn't work on anything other then IE) hmm, you are out of luck here. ~Extensive work in Office Suite, full compatibility with MS Office is a high priority. openoffice works good, if not fully compatible. If you are looking for commercial support see http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/ooo.html And some more which I may not be able to recall right now. So, could you please recommend the best distro which is best for peaceful co-existence in a M$ dominated environment. Just finished migrating about 150 desktop from M$ to openSUSE. Users simply loved it and feels comfortable. Few powerusers of MS-Office are not comfortable with openoffice but rest have no issues at all. In my opinion openSUSE should be given a try. openSUSE 11.0 with KDE 3.5 is recommended.My recommendation is based on practical testing of Fedora 10, Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 and openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 for a average office user.-- amit Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] [Very-old-topic] Distro having best compatibility with MS related products
On Friday 16 Jan 2009, Smruti wrote: [snip] So, below are some of the things that are done in the office in a regular office. ~Connect to Windows Terminal Server for remote operations ~Mail Exchanging (Mail server is MS Exchange) and all other clients are Outlook ~Intranet website has issues with Firefox(Well, honestly doesn't work on anything other then IE) My strong recommendation would be to not switch to Linux. ~Extensive work in Office Suite, full compatibility with MS Office is a high priority. Again, you're out of luck here. Fonts get mangled, layouts change and with the new docx format, tables vanish. And some more which I may not be able to recall right now. So, could you please recommend the best distro which is best for peaceful co-existence in a M$ dominated environment. If you move your manager to Linux, and she doesn't like it or can't use it fully, then you've not converted one user, you've alienated a whole office. Most of the people I've seen who get pushed into Linux and then get frustrated with it end up becoming Linux haters, mostly vocal and fanatical Linux haters. Since it's quite clear from your mail that full compatibility is required, and cannot be achieved, I'd recommend waiting for a while until you do have powerful enough tools on Linux to let your manager handle her day-to-day work and then converting her. As for distributions, with KDE and Gnome there's very little to choose between them. I personally prefer Debian on both desktops (with KDE) and servers because of its stability, but the choice is open. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] [Very-old-topic] Distro having best compatibility with MS related products
All, After being a freedom fighter for more then 3 years, today I am finding myself, again standing in front of the same age-old question which I had to confront during my days of initiation; *Distro*. But today it's not about me getting bored...it's about a small but important step whose ripples are far reaching. Finally I managed to convince one of my managers to try Linux. She will probably start with a dual-boot setup. Now comes the time for the old questions. Which Distro to recommend. But this time the biggest criteria is compatibility. This is too huge a place to completely switch to Linux in a month or year. It will take time. So, I have to start with ONE. The rest of the progress completely depends on this ONE. So, the biggest challenge here is not to fight but to co-exist with Windows. So, below are some of the things that are done in the office in a regular office. ~Connect to Windows Terminal Server for remote operations ~Mail Exchanging (Mail server is MS Exchange) and all other clients are Outlook ~Intranet website has issues with Firefox(Well, honestly doesn't work on anything other then IE) ~Extensive work in Office Suite, full compatibility with MS Office is a high priority. And some more which I may not be able to recall right now. So, could you please recommend the best distro which is best for peaceful co-existence in a M$ dominated environment. Regards SR -- I am dreamer... ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] [Very-old-topic] Distro having best compatibility with MS related products
~Connect to Windows Terminal Server for remote operations tsclient comes in almost all distros. Can be used easily. ~Mail Exchanging (Mail server is MS Exchange) and all other clients are Outlook Dont know about this. ~Intranet website has issues with Firefox(Well, honestly doesn't work on anything other then IE) No distro gives option for this but you can try installing IEs4Linux. It works but has issues while closing, leaves zombie processes for me. ~Extensive work in Office Suite, full compatibility with MS Office is a high priority. No option for full compatibility in any distro or otherwise. Thanks Shantanu -- http://tech.shantanugoel.com/ http://www.safercode.com/blog/ http://blog.shantanugoel.com/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] [Very-old-topic] Distro having best compatibility with MS related products
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote: snipped So, below are some of the things that are done in the office in a regular office. ~Connect to Windows Terminal Server for remote operations tsclient works well for Microsoft RDP. ~Mail Exchanging (Mail server is MS Exchange) and all other clients are Outlook evolution with evolution-exchange ~Intranet website has issues with Firefox(Well, honestly doesn't work on anything other then IE) hmm, you are out of luck here. ~Extensive work in Office Suite, full compatibility with MS Office is a high priority. openoffice works good, if not fully compatible. If you are looking for commercial support see http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/ooo.html And some more which I may not be able to recall right now. So, could you please recommend the best distro which is best for peaceful co-existence in a M$ dominated environment. I would recommend openSUSE (or Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop if you are looking for commercial support). One of the aims of the Novell-M$ deal was to build inter-operable software. I would not be keen to discuss the rest of the aims. BTW, I work for Novell's Suse division. -- Goldwyn ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
