The following text was discovered Monday 15 July 2002 in a note attributed to one "[EMAIL PROTECTED]":
> Our company is considering to migrate some Desktop PC¡¯s to Linux. To > rephrase: I have to prove how far the development of Linux is feasible in > our company! > > I have a checklist about the programs which are used in our company. Most > of the vendors of these programs don¡¯t support Linux solutions/Clients > (hopefully it will change as soon as possible). Therefore I am looking for > alternatives by taking into account the compatibility to our existing > programs, because we will not migrate all PC¡¯s. > > I hope you can fill in my list. If this is no subject for this mailing > list, please let me know or maybe you just prefer it to send it to my > private email address, it would be nice! If you have already experienced > alternative products playing/working with the common windows based > products, please write down a mark between 1-6 (¡°1 ¨C very well¡± to ¡°6 > - very bad¡±) in brackets behind the certain program and if u don¡¯t mind > with a short explanation of pros and cons, just insert with a comma and > use a¡°P:¡± for pros and a ¡°C:¡± for cons! > For example: Alternative: openoffice(3,P:faster, more stable, C:" not > compatible to Microsoft excel 2000 sheets), staroffice (2) > > > Following the list of the programs my company used: > MS Office 97/2002 > ------------------ > Linux version: No There sort of is. CodeWeavers (www.codeweavers.com) sells a "Crossover Office" product that allows MS Office to be run under Linux. > Power Archiver (Free compression tool) > ------------------------------------- > Linux version: No > Alternatives: > Comments: There's a utility called File-Roller (sorry, don't know a URI offhand) that does a fairly good job. > Irfan View > ---------- > Linux version: No > Alternatives: > Comments: IIRC this is an image viewer. "gqview" (I believe the URI is gqview.sf.net) is a very good one, and GThumb (you can find it somewhere on gnome.org) is based off of it. > Adobe Acrobat Reader > Linux version: yes > Alternatives: xpdf is a usable alternative, though it doesn't have a "modern" GUI, which might conceivably be a drawback (it's well-done enough not to require it IMO). > And last but not least one question: > If we come to the conclusion to migrate to Linux which Operating system > would you choose for a Desktop solution and WHY !?!? You're asking the Debian lists for a nonbaised distro reccomendation? ;) I'd actually suggest Libranet (www.libranet.com) - they're based off of Debian, and they've made a decent effort to focus on desktop applications. But raw Debian ought to do fine in a pinch. -- Joanne Hunter <http://menagerie.tf/~jrhunter/> Say No to HTML Mail!/"\ Of course, I don't know how interesting any of this really is, \ / but now you've got it in your brain cells so you're stuck with it. X --Gary Larson ASCII Ribbon Campaign/ \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
