On Tuesday 10 July 2001 12:05 am, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> En Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:39:34AM -0700, likot escribio:
> #_ them)
> #_ so much work :) but if you are really willing the last
> #_ time i checked they still don't have a reseller here
> #_ in the Phil. something like that ( they'll send you
> #_ the cd's 5.2 and the upcoming 6.0 )
> #_
>
> I'm not sure you can call then a re-seller, but I think Sun Philippines
> sells StarOffice here in the Philippines. I read a press release from
> SunPhil in the Business section of the July 7, 2001 issue of The Philippine
> Star.
>
> <press release>
> SUN MICROSYSTEMS DONATES STAROFFICE 5.2 SOFTWARE TO PMS:
> Sun Microsystems Philippines, Inc. (SunPhil) supports the government's
> efforts toward achieving efficiency and in prompt delivery of government
> services. As a result, SunPhil in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has
> donated and provided the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) of the Office
> of the President with unlimited licenses of the StarOffice 5.2 productivity
> software. The software will be installed in the PC's in its main office and
> various field offices. This is in line with PMS's efforts to lower costs
> spent on software licenses. Seen in photo are (from left) SunPhil president
> and managing director, Cynthia R. Mamon and Presidential Management Staff
> Head, Hon. Victoria P. Garchitorena.
> </press release>
>
This is good! I'm glad to see that Sun is beginning to push their StarOffice
in earnest. I think it's a great piece of freeware. Particularly if it is
not running sluggishly.
I have run StarOffice 5.2 on a Celeron 333 w/ 64mb (better with atleast 128
mb definitely flies on 256mb - it's only P1,000 per 128mb nowadays) and have
had pretty good results. Here is an unsolicited suggestion for those who
want to do so and not have too much of a performance penalty. Don't use
Windows as your operating system, :-) Throwing memory at Windoze does not
necessarily speed it up. :-(. Plus, you get the added "benefit" of the blue
screen of death, surprising you every so often!
Seriously, I suggest you run with the 2.4.x (probably a version with the
ftp_conn_track problem already patched) kernel with the Virtualmemory File
System enabled (CONFIG_TMPFS) and setting
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
on your /etc/fstab, probably after your swap is defined. This should speed
up even your compiles as the /tmp is used by a lot of the processes on your
system.
A word of caution though, a reboot will wipe out everything in the /tmp
directory. So, if you feel you've been hacked, don't reboot before you've
inspected the /tmp for any traces. If you've been rootkitted and your root
password has been changed, then rebooting and rebuilding is probably your
best option anyway. You will lose any traces left in your /tmp directory.
BTW, StarOffice and a lot of other GUI applications (I use KDE 2.1.1
personnally and am quite happy - that's the default of Redhat 7.1 for kde -
you should also be able to use Gnome too) looks so much nicer on Xfree86
4.0.3 with Microsoft Fonts (something Microsoft is good at). So if you have
a licensed Microsoft Windows 98 cd, don't file the cd onto the cylindrical
cabinet just yet, copy the fonts (and keep the licensing docs as well to show
that you are a legitimate user - what the hell, keep the cd, you may need to
copy the fonts again =). Then read the mini howto on FDU (Font
Deuglification).
Imagine a firewall in every desktop for free, with stateful inspection and
remotely administerable with an organization wide policy management using
secure encrypted management processes. You can even install intrussion
detection at every desktop without your end users knowing it. Virtually
impermeable to the e-mail viruses like "I love you" , "Snow White" and their
ilk. With Samba, NFS or Coda, you can have a central file system, and with
NIS and kerberos, you can have a single sign on for your users at every
desktop configured to their preferences (non root - of course ;-). With
ReiserFS, you have some protection against users who just power off their
machines (can't do much if their disk starts screaming and crashes on you
though)!
Ahh! SysAd Nirvanna! Reality check, now how do you convince those OS
challenged Windows users to switch over? (show them a really great and
stable workstation that looks as good as their current Windows machine, runs
faster -- and have management mandate it ;-)
Yup, linux is definitely ready for the Office desktop! Happy Micro-Soft
Office withdrawal symptoms! (Take note, this is for those users who are
not using applications developed on Visual Basic or similar, strictly for
Windows ok? -- of course if you port the apps ....)
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