WH00T! On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Steve Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To All: > > If anyone would like to just dabble in Linux for fun or otherwise, check out > the latest from Ubunto (www.ubunto.com), the organization that has made the > Linux installation user friendly. It is a free download, which you can test > drive without installing. If you want to subsequently install in a dual > boot mode (or by itself), the install time is amazingly short, and only one > re-boot at the end, and it works! Open Office is supplied for office > applications, along with Firefox as the browser. There are many other > applications supplied or available, all for free. A far cry from the days > when installing Linux was not for the faint of heart. Seems I recall that > our fearless leader, A. Razzak Memon, is creating an Rbase version in Linux. > > Steve > > At 06:07 PM 8/20/2008, you wrote: >> >> John, >> >> Open Office 3.0 (currently beta, scheduled for release in September) does >> know how to deal with M$ Office 07. >> >> -- cheers Clarence >> >> > 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 >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > http://pcnorb.blogspot.com/ >> > http://pcnorb.homelinux.org/ >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Clarence W. Robison, P.E. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 208-423-6610 > > >
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