Thank you John.
I have tried Linux, but I always failed on lack of knowledge.
I thank you also for the support for open office, which I so far like very
much
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Croson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:45 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Totally out of topic question!
Well, since you are asking, I don't run Windows. I use Linux
exclusively on my desktop at work (Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop 10.0) and at home OpenSuSE 10.2.
I use VMWare Server in both locations to run Windows XP apps that
won't run in the Wine environment.
I use OpenOffice.org for all of my office suite needs, and Evolution
for mail. The only issue that I've come across is that Word '07
documents won't open in ooO, but I'm sure that soon someone will crack
open M$'s proprietary encoding, and bring us an import filter for that
as well.
I'd say, give up on M$. Linux runs faster, lighter, and if you need
it, run Borg software in a VM...DON'T BE ASSIMILATED!!! <- reference
to STNG for you Trekkies out there.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Gunnar Ekblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
For 2 days I have run my new laptop with vista on it.
I still have a possibilty to go back to XP.
I also have instaled open office. insted of MS-office
From an RBASE point of view vista is almost fine (almost I say since my
national charcters åäö ÅÄÖ dont work in RBASE dos version, never mind I
dont
use dos version very much longer)
Question
Shall I revert back to XP?
Shall I stay with open office and give up MS-Office?
--
John Croson
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http://pcnorb.blogspot.com/
http://pcnorb.homelinux.org/
