On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Fabian Jennings wrote:
>prepared to try it if there's no other way. Also, I'd try KOffice if I
>knew where to locate it, and felt I had any chance of making a
>successful install.
I think you should be able to locate KOffice through Google.com, or
otherwise from www.kde.org
>a possible alternative to KOffice, I'm also thinking of dumping S.O. and
>trying Corel WordPerfect for Linux. Any hope for that? If anyone else
>out there has a suggestion for a (MS Word compatible?) word processor I
>can use along with Mandrake, please let me know.
You can go to www.abisource.com and get Abiword. It is a small
wordprocessor that reads and writes MS-Office documents, but it is still
in an early stage. Many options are not supported yet.
I have downloaded and installed WP8 for Linux, and this does a great job
in handling MS-Office documents also.
>I note also that impractically slow printer and word processing
>performance doesn't occur much as a problem on this help list. What are
>people using their Linux-Mandrake for? Or does everyone but me have a
>Pentium III, 800Mhz, with a gazillion MB's of RAM?
Pentium II/400 with 128Mb of Ram. I use my machine for a lot of internet
activities, sometimes some wordprocessing/spread-sheeting, I am running a
Seti client 24/7, I program on this machine, play with some graphics
through Gimp, and some other things. And often all this runs simultaneous
and much faster than with any way of setup I have ever had possible in
Windows.
>I really am amazed that I'm having so much trouble getting a simple
>desktop setup together and running when my requirements are so
>completely basic. I was weeks getting my modem/internet connection
>straightened out, and now this.
It took me several months to get my ISDN card going, I had to buy a
different video card for this machine because at the time I started again
with Linux Mandrake (had given up on Redhat several times) the video card
I had was not supported well (who likes 640x480 and 16 colors?)
The Linux approach is different from Windows. Windows setup takes you by
the hand, and it will tell you what is good for you. Often, if you do not
agree, it will backfire on you in some way.
With Linux, YOU are in control. But to be in control means that you have
to know a lot of things. So, may I bid you welcome to the world of
knowledge!
> Oh well, I'm learning tons, and I do have my Microsoft setup to fall
>back on. What an irony given that I started all this to get clear of
>Bill Gates and his Bandits!
You will get there. I cannot remove windowz because I need a program from
work that only runs in Windoze (no luck with VMWare so far). But I run
that only once every 6 weeks when I get a standby call.
It took me a long time to take the step to move, but I did. And I love
every moment afterwards, because I keep learning and knowing.
Paul
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