-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15-Jul-2002/14:28 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a checklist about the programs which are used in our company. Most >of the vendors of these programs donĄŻt support Linux solutions/Clients >(hopefully it will change as soon as possible). Therefore I am looking for >alternatives by taking into account the compatibility to our existing >programs, because we will not migrate all PCĄŻs. > [snip] > >MS Office 97/2002
OpenOffice.org 1.0 has worked well for me when sharing documents with my MS Office using coworkers. All of the documents have been small and none had really complex formatting. StarOffice is the same as far as import/export, but it includes clipart, a database, and some other nice things that are proprietary, and therefore not in OpenOffice.org. >MS Netmeeting GnomeMeeting <http://www.gnomemeeting.org> >Power Archiver (Free compression tool) zip/unzip and tar/gzip/gunzip are included with Linux. I like tar because it can preserve ownership and permissions. You can call gzip/gunzip to handle compression by including the "-z" option on the command line: create: tar -czf mytarball.tar.gz file1 file2 file3 files* extract: tar -xzf mytarball.tar.gz The GNOME file managers will let you browse the contents of a tarball. >Irfan View The Gimp, and Electric Eyes each view lots of image formats. The Gimp will let you convert between them, as will the command line utility "convert". >Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw >---------------------------- >Linux version: No/yes (PhotoPaint) >Alternatives: Gimp(), PhotoPaint() I also like xpaint for simple bitmaps. It is not installed by default, but the RPM is available from rpmfind.net. >Lotus Notes Domino 5 No native client on Linux, but it may run under Wine or Crossweaver. Complain to IBM and see if we can prod them into releasing a native Linux client. >Adobe Acrobat Reader >Linux version: yes xpdf ships with Linux, but it does not handle fonts as well as the Adobe reader. Surprisingly, I find the Ghostscript viewer "gv" to be very good at displaying PDF files, although you have to use xpdf or Acrobat if you want to print them. >And last but not least one question: >If we come to the conclusion to migrate to Linux which Operating system >would you choose for a Desktop solution and WHY !?!? Mandrake, Red Hat, or SuSE for an all-Linux desktop, depending on which distro I was more familiar with. Maybe Lindows for the ability to run some Windows apps if that's what I needed. The more important choice is between KDE and GNOME. I find that GNOME runs faster on my hardware and I like the way it looks. AbiWord and Gnumeric are good lightweight alternatives to a full office suite and they are included in the Ximian GNOME Desktop. Then there's Evolution, which is a GNOME application. You can run GNOME and KDE apps in the other environment, but I generally don't because I like consistency, as long as the functionality is there. Either desktop runs on any distro, so use the one you're most familiar with. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE9NR71pCpg3WyUI50RAvN3AJ9G1StyIjgd1Nsck9yAWN7R8n2FmwCfWbBH OLVTpymPEiirBTaENV67rm4= =Axo+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
