On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:32:22 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta
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On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 09:09 -0800, sandip wrote:
Hello, friends. Though I registered myself some 2
months ago, I never posted anything.
Welcome!
Actually I came
to know about this group from one of my friend in
Kolkata. Not only this group I came to know about
Linux from him. Earlier I used to think Linux as
something very technical, but my friend made me
understand that it can be for me too. But as he is
more interested in the philosophy of open source (am
I
right? perhaps this and free were quite different)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
things he referred me your group for the technical
details, and I became a member. By profession I am a social data
researcher ( no
research, it is mere survey work). Actually the job
involves, a lot of data collection, sometimes
analysis
and writing reports. So, a pirated version of XP
(both
windows and office) works fine for me. Now knowing
about Linux, I am a little hesitant to continue that
way. But following the discussions in this mailing
list I am not very sure whether this things are
meant
for me. The discussions on Book Fair has made me place
my problems before the group.
I use Words, Excel, PowerPoint and Limdep.
For Word, there is OpenOffice.org Writer
For Excel, there is OpenOffice.org Calc or Gnumeric.
For Powerpoint, there is OpenOffice.org Impress.
I think Limdep is available for Linux.
I have to
have Bengali to make presentations and
questionnaire.
Working on Bengali in Linux is definitely possible - and you might find
it to be easier to work with than in Windows. However, moving your
existing Bangla data from Windows may be a major
problem.
May I shift to Linux totally?
I suggest that you try out the Windows version of OpenOffice.org and
after you are comfortable, you can gradually move to GNU/Linux (first a
dual boot setup, and then remove Windows completely).
Thanks,
Sayamindu
When you feel free after adopting sayamindu's suggestion, you install Linux
on a empty partition, and and run parallelly to gain confidence. And I
think it wont take too long time. then you can totally switch over to
Linux.
Thanks
prosun
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