Re: [Ltsp-discuss] requirements for running ms office 98/2000

[Kenn Sebesta]

I know you're going to get this response a million times, but have you 
considered using Linux based apps to replace your Windows ones? For 
example, OpenOffice is, for most intents and purposes, an equal and 
perhaps superior office suite to MSOffice. Internet Explorer almost as 
badly broken as the ActiveX websites that only work with IE, so in my 
opinion your organization should be considering a move to Firefox. Y!M 
can be replaced by any of kopete, gaim, etc, and you might find that the 
jabber protocol suits your needs even better than Y!M. Lastly, there are 
some fantastic IRC clients on Linux.

All these programs for the price of a download, and many of them work in 
Windows and in Linux. For instance, instead of switching to Linux and 
then running Windows apps, you could switch to multi-platform apps such 
as Firefox and OpenOffice in order to get people used to the new tools 
and _then_ switch over to Linux.

Just my $0.02 worth. While this is not what you asked, you might find 
that the headaches from switching programs are far less intense than the 
headaches of running Windows programs on Wine. My last experience with 
Wine was very encouraging, but it was not what I would call "successful".

Cheers,
Kenn Sebesta
hi,
i am new to ltsp, currently we are using mixed linux servers and windows
98/2000 as clients. i am planing to migrate to linux terminal server and
having also linux as clients, but i cannot migrate to linux entirely at
one time, so i need to do it phase by phase starting from the server to
clients. my questions is about configuring the server, right now our
clients are running applications like ms office, web browser( Internet
Explorer), yahoo messenger and irc, i would like to ask what would i need
to configure in the server to have these applications running? in my
understanding i need to install wine for ms office?
TIA,
wesley
 


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