Hi, I have installed Star Office and am VERY please with it. I can even
open most Microsoft Office
documetns such as PowerPoint, Word and Excell. If I could only get my
sound card working, and get my 3 button mouse to work as a real 3 button
mouse, I might give up Windows forever!!!
http://www.stardivision.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastian L C Goh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 1999, August, 26 5:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re[2]: [newbie] Caldera
I saw a package with a version of StarOffice and a Linux for Dummies
book. That may be useful for cheapskates like me. Don't have to fork
out extra money.
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Caldera
Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at INTERNET-GATEWAY
Date: 8/25/99 9:32 PM
Tom Bishop wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake
when i
t
> > comes to Red Hat copatability ?
> >
> > jerrud
>
> Yes and no. It looks very much like Mandrake what with its KDE desktop,
but i
t
> is not tied so closely with the RPM package management (dept. of
redundancy,
> dept.). You will do a lot more untarring and compiling with Caldera, but
that
> is not necessarily a bad thing. It sure made me learn more. I like
Caldera an
d
> have it installed now in a virtual machine so I can keep learning from
it.
> However, KDE is all you get from the box, which may or may not be OK,
dependin
g
> on your level of Windows tolerance 8-). Caldera was based in the
begining, I
> believe on RPM (RedHat), but not so much now. This is newbie talk, so
I"m sur
e
> someone else can give you a lot more insight. The install is very easy.
> Tom
I don't know what version of Caldera you tried, but 2.2 (their latest)
still uses .rpm packaging. It's an interesting distribution, but not
nearly as "newbie friendly" as some try to paint it to be. I got
infuriated with it after a week and moved back to Mandrake 5.3.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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