--- Dinesh Joshi wrote: > But the problem with Open Office:
> 1. With average machines, it performs slow Average machines need to be defined here, with specifications. > 2. The documents it generates are not 100% > compatible with Ms.Office True. Though, the solution could be using OpenOffice under Windows as well, that seems to be more difficult to achieve. > One more issue that I perceive is that distros don't > always have good > hardware compatibility. Let me explain it in more > detail. Ubuntu 6.06 > worked well on my friend's machine. No issues. But > Ubuntu 7.04 refuses > to work on the same machine. Some driver > compatibility issues. If the vendor sells Intel Hardware (processor, motherboad) it shouldn't be very difficult. There are rare cases of incompatible between different versions, with Intel Hardware, AFAIK. > The other issue that people in India generally face > is of bandwidth. > Ubuntu installs well. It impresses them. But then it > runs up HUGE bills > downloading softwares. The best alternative I can think of, apart from Apt-ON CD, is installation with a DVD of that distribution. Sure, we don't know the percentage of homes / offices with DVD drives, but assembled computers _will_ have Combo drives (CDRW plus DVD-ROM) or even DVD+-RW drives in them, because the vendor (could) insist on having one. Yikes! people would buy illegally copied movie DVDs, though. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
