[newbie] Couple of Questions Re: Open Office
This may seem like the bleedin' obvious but please indulge me. I recently got hold of the Linux Format magazine with this as a freebie. Before I install, I'd appreciate it if some of you folks could give your views on the following: 1.Are the differences between OO 1.0 and SO 5.2 worth the trouble of installing it? 2.Will OO read saved SO documents? 3.Is it advisable to uninstall SO prior to installing OO or can they peacefully co-exist while I decide which I like best? Thanks y'all -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Couple of Questions Re: Open Office
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 9:01 am, Graham Watkins wrote: This may seem like the bleedin' obvious but please indulge me. I recently got hold of the Linux Format magazine with this as a freebie. Before I install, I'd appreciate it if some of you folks could give your views on the following: 1.Are the differences between OO 1.0 and SO 5.2 worth the trouble of installing it? Absolutely. Unless you positively like the SO5.2 desktop, you will find OO is streets ahead. 2.Will OO read saved SO documents? Absolutely Yes. 3.Is it advisable to uninstall SO prior to installing OO or can they peacefully co-exist while I decide which I like best? Not necessarily. In particular delete the ~/.sversionrc file or else it causes problems. Thanks y'all The OO version you have from the magazine may not pick up all your fonts like an RPM for Mandrake should. If you have problems with fonts as root run ./spadmin which is in the ../program directory of wherever your OO gets installed. From there add the fonts in your drakfont directory. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Couple of questions
I have a couple of questions, I would appreciate an answer to. 1. My current PC setup is a PIII, 800mhz PC with 256mb of ram, dual 20gb hard drives and an ATI Xpert PCI graphics card (8b of video ram). I have a printer and cable modem access on a Linksys cable router. My question - could I drop back to a 2.2.? kernel with no ill affects? What did I gain with the 2.4.? kernel on my systems? 2. Using the family's PC I can tag a bunch of MP3's files, burn them to a cd as .wavs in Nero. Can X-CD-Roast do that? If so, how? If not X-CD-Roast, then which one? I would like to burn audio cd's on my Linux box (v8.1) -- Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said Windows 2000 or higher required, so I used Mandrake Linux... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
