On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:43:16 +0100
begin Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:17:06 +0530
> "zohar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> | I think the main point for needing windows is its ease of use but
> | needs fast hardware.
> | This is not understood by the people because nowadays hardware is not
> | as much costly as it was before.
> |
> | If someone could give the CDs of the customized version of Linux that
> | also includes office suite (Staroffice 6.0) and a GUI that makes
> | operating easy then it can make a big hole in Microsoft's monopoly as
> | it can also perform on a slow HW also whose lower cost government can
> | afford..
>
> There are two major things Linux would need - in addition to an office
> suite:
>
> Keyboard/character set support. So many are sending e-mail to friends
> that REQUIRE alternate character sets. Especially mixed ones. Type an
> e-mail address as expected, but enter the content as, say, Urdu. MS
> does this sort of thing very well. Linux supports kayboards, but not
> input methods (right to left text as an example).
Don�t know about all this (the Urdu, writing right to left, etc), but I
have no problems with ������� for my Spanish. (in Spanish, a�o means year,
but ano means anus -- very embarrasing wishing folks happy backside
instead of happy new year).
>
> Web telephone. No kidding. Local phone companies in Africa and the
> Middle East charge BIG bucks for international calls. One big sales area
> on PCs are things like net2phone. They are very popular. Some people I
> know even bought a PC for this alone. Anything else they could get it to
> do would be gravy. There is Linux telephony - but not out of the box.
>
so get ohphone or speakfreely, hook up a headset/mike and call me.
Personally, I�m using a phone connected to a quicknet phonejack card.
Worked pretty much "out of the box" for me. Granted I upgraded phonedev.o
and ixj.o, and ohphone and speakfreely are not boxed in any distro I've
used, but it's available.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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