On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:39:04PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:57:53PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: > > OS Lindows > > Debian unstable will give you more flexibility. Whether that's a positive > or a negative is your call. Debian does have the Very Funky FAI, which can > do automated installations. There's a program callec unattended > (unattended.sf.net) which does equivalent things to Windows boxes. > > For making it look windows-like, there's no shortage of window managers out > there. The two big desktop systems, GNOME and KDE, both have a fairly > windows-like feel to them; I've had windows die-hards work quite happily > with both of them. There's also more "niche" WMs out there, including one > which is intended to completely (and I do mean *completely*) replicate the > look, feel, and mechanics of XP. There are some truly sick people out > there.
Debian is good, free and easy to update. Try www.xpde.com to make it look like XP. > > > Office APps Open Office and ABIWord > > OpenOffice is probably going to give you better results as an all-round > office suite, although it is the most god awful resource hog. > > > Email Yahoo Mail using Web Browser > > You can also run your own webmail server using something like Squirrelmail. I Like Horde for web mail www.horde.org > > Publisher (They like the templates) ????????????? > > I'm not 100% sure (because I don't use OOo) but I think OpenOffice has a > publisher-like tool in it. Try http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/ > > > I am setting up a Samba domain and would like to make it an AD look alike, > > That's some low ambitions you've got there. I'd expect you to be able to > pull off something *much* better than AD... > There is a good read at: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/samba-pdc.php I set this up on Debian. Its not mandrake specific. VLAD is a handy LDAP browser (read only) http://cataclysm.cx/dist/misc/vlad/ > > PS, this is in the Hornsby area of Sydney if anyone wants to help Wish I could eh! -- Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
