Hello fellow Linux users, If any of you would like to make a little extra money in this nasty economy, I have some Linux desktop PC setup work that I would like to hire someone from this group to do for me.
I want to hire someone to come to my facility in San Diego County and to perform the following work on a Slackware Linux desktop machine: 1. Set up and configure the X11 display; 2. Assist in the selection and setup of a window manager matching my Spartan philosophy; 3. Set up and configure some decent version of Mozilla Firefox or some other browser that meets the F/OSS definition and which would provide web browsing capabilities no worse than those enjoyed by users of consumer operating systems like Weendoze or Ubuntu. Compilation from source may be required. Additional work we may want depending on how well you do the above and depending on the available budget: * Install and set up OpenOffice or some other F/OSS software that can grok .doc, .rtf and .odt files - again compilation from source may be required. Here I'm mostly interested in a piece of software that can read in a .doc/.rtf/.odt file, run it through its text formatting engine, and spit out PostScript or PDF output. From what I understand one can do this with OO by opening a document and selecting "Print" or "Save As" the right format. I am additionally interested in finding some way to do this *without* bringing up the GUI, i.e., to invoke OO's document printing / format conversion engine from the command line without having an X11 display. * Set up and configure audio - say, to the point where a user can play MP3s from the command line. * Set up and configure video - say, to the point where a user can watch a YouTube video or a DVD, with working audio. But here is one gotcha - all this MUST be done under Slackware. Replacing Slackware with a different distro is NOT permissible. Why? Because the person paying (me) says so. Any takers? MS P.S. I hope this post doesn't violate the rules of the mailing list. If such requests are inappropriate here, I would appreciate a pointer to a more appropriate forum.
