Hi > 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.
My own experinces are that OO is reasonable, it is slow and breaks on many 'out-of-the-ordinary' documents. I now use textmaker and planmaker which I found to be fast and have not broken yet. (and my windows-adoring mate has been unable to fault) http://softmaker.de James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
