John McCreesh wrote:
> This is a good list. I would add that you need some way of supporting MS-Windoze
>apps in 'ghetto' mode. There are many niche apps out there that are only available
>under MS-Windoze. Sooner or later you have to work out a way of handling them -
>either by having a few pure Windoze machines in a 'ghetto' or set up some way of
>making them avaiable on an window on an LTSP client.
>
> John
>
> p.s. At the risk of starting a religious war, I would suggest that
> OpenOffice.org is the only app that meets the office software
> requirements given below.
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 02:05:05 -0700 (PDT)
> mslicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>1. Ensure the utmost in synergistic use of software by ensuring multiple
>>instances of applications share as much as possible rather than loading
>>redundant instances... such as in executible code and cached files
>>(icons, graphics, web pages, etc. etc.)
>>
>>2. Ensure everything works out of the box. It's better to select one app
>>for each major purpose and ensure it works perfectly and ensure there are
>>help pages for it than to throw in thousands of poorly refined apps as
>>with Mandrake, for example. It should do the following and do it very
>>cleanly and well:
>> a. Wordprocessing (quality MS Word import/export)
>> b. eMail & Groupware (shared calendars, etc.)
>> c. Browing the web (ensure flash, PDF, and real media works! And
>>ensure fonts are OK sized)
>> d. Spreadsheet (quality MS Excel import/export)
>> e. PalmOS synchronization must work
>> f. Database--needs desktop database in leage with MS Access
>> g. Presentation app (quality MS PowerPoint import/export)
>> h. Bitmap graphics application (the Gimp or Photoshop)
>> i. Flow Charting app (Kivio is good)
>> j. Project management app (something somewhat like MS Project)
>>
>>All of the above are listed in order of priority. A through H are
>>critical and the others are just very useful. Unfortunately, no
>>reasonable free alternatives exist for a desktop database or project
>>management. A desktop database is required for all the little
>>departmental database apps used for miscellaneous data tracking/reporting
>>tasks. Project management software such as Microsoft Project is good for
>>project planning and estimation of managers at all levels of an
>>organization but task tracking and queue management is also often needed
>>by organizations..... often integrated with ticket tracking systems that
>>are often web-based--luckilly.
>>
>>--Matthew
>>
>>On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, david scott wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Ok, I know there have been several strange questions
>>>passed by me in the recent past. I need some serious
>>>imput from people in ltsp. At my work we are building
>>>a new distribution of linux. I have been talking with
>>>many other groups of people and It seams like this
>>>will be a incredibly unique version. I will go into
>>>the specs so far if people are interested. However
>>>from a differnt point of view, if you could design a
>>>distribution for linux to have optimum services for
>>>ltsp what would you put into it? Make the server
>>>faster, free up more ram for ltsp, and optimally place
>>>more security into what is already there. If we can
>>>get some input from ltsp and users of ltsp it would be
>>>highly appricated.
>>>
>>>David
>>>
>
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I like openoffice but it doesn't import WORD docs very well. Most of
the text formatting is OK but the graphics are trashed. Any hints?
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