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 Mathur [email protected] 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 -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
