Dennis, Do you mean ghostview? I think it can create PDFs as well.
- Bill --- Dennis Bagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As to what they are going to need.... > > Again I am waiting to hear if they are getting some > hardware from the county > and what kind of hardware it will be. If it's a mess of > old IBM P-Is, > then my first > step will be to ask who on the board owns a boat and has > need of an anchor. > > That being said, I got the impression we stand a chance > of having > P-III's to work with > that may need a bit of a RAM upgrade. > (If anyone else knows of other sources for a "matched" > set of > equipment, like Sierra Pacific, > IGT, one of casinos etc. please let us know. If we > have an excess of > equipment, that is NOT > a bad problem to have.) > > From the conversations I've had so far, I am less > concerned with Samba > and Windoze > interoperability than the ability to create certain types > of files that > can be read on a BillyBox; > ie. spreadsheets and doc files, and of course PDF. > > So OpenOffice will cover most of that. One of the > accounting packages I > will be examining > is browser and sql based, but external use is not as > important as > general suitability. And I seem to > recall a package that will create PDF files. Any body > remember what it is? > > Going with Gnome sounds just fine. KDE does have a few > nice GUI tools, > but there are > Gnome substitutes for virtually all of them. > > I have my first official meeting with the finance > committee on 1/15 and > will have visited the physical facilities > beforehand. Next week I have a consulting job in > Wisconsin but will be > in touch via email. and cell phone. > > Request to Jay or whoever else knows where to dig out the > info. Please > look up the ownership/admin > on www.nevadastatefair.org. I was told it is not > actually owned by the > fair! May need to try to correct > that. > > Dennis > > > Jay MacDonald wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill > >>Cunningham > >>Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 11:46 PM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: RE: [RLUG] NV Sate Fair > >> > >> > >> > >>Jay, > >> > >>I agree with you with the Debian thing - I only > suggested > >>Mandrake as they have recently pledged support for > years to > >>come. However the hardware support in Debian is not up > to > >>par with those in other distros. I think we probably > should > >>take stock in what they need as opposed to proposing > >>solutions for solutions sake. I'm of the simple > approach is > >>the best. > >> > >>Perhaps finding out what they really need would be the > >>first step in determining what distro to use. What > hardware > >>do they currently need to have supported and what > hardware > >>do they intend to purchase within the next year? > >> > >>After that then we probably should start to look into > what > >>the really need in terms of financial reporting and > such. > >>One step at a time. > >> > >> > > > >I absolutely agree. We should organize a group to meet > with them and > >determine specifics of what they will be doing. Dennis? > What's your take on > >that? I know you've had some indication. > > > >Jay > > > > > > > >>- Bill > >> > >>--- Jay MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Everyone, > >>> > >>>I don't want to make this a distro war, but one thing > not > >>>to lose sight of > >>>is future availability. I've recently moved away from > Red > >>>Hat to Debian > >>>specifically because of this, and am not planning to > look > >>>back (read: I'm > >>>really pleased with Debian). With the recent purchase > of > >>>SUSE by Novell I, > >>>for one, would not put money on SUSE/Novell not going > the > >>>way of Red Hat. > >>>Bottom line: the more "open" we can make this the > better. > >>>This project needs > >>>to be sustainable. > >>> > >>>LTSP would be an ideal solution assuming the resources > >>>were available for > >>>the central server. IMHO running it with more than a > >>>couple of clients on > >>>anything less than a 1 GHz PIII with 1 GB RAM would be > >>>foolish. Until the > >>>resources are there to put such a system (or better) > in > >>>as the server, I > >>>recommend we abandon LTSP as a possibility. From what > >>>I've seen so far, no > >>>"big servers" are coming our way. > >>> > >>>IMHO GNOME and KDE are the only real options for the > GUI > >>>on desktops, so a > >>>minimum system requirement needs to be defined. Sure, > >>>they would run on > >>>lesser hardware, but we need some level of > productivity > >>>and ease of use in > >>>this install. As such I absolutely agree that anything > >>>less than a PIII with > >>>256 MB RAM is not worth pursuing for the desktops. If > >>>lesser hardware is all > >>>that is available by donations we need to try and get > the > >>>RAM upped. > >>> > >>>If a couple of PIIs are available then by all means > bring > >>>them in as low end > >>>servers handling routing, e-mail, file and print > sharing. > >>>They will likely > >>>continue to have some Windows machines around so > Samba, > >>>rather than NFS, > >>>would IMHO be the most likely direction to go for > network > >>>sharing. Tunneling > >>>Samba through ssh is much easier than NFS, too. (As an > >>>aside, my friend here > >>>in Colorado uses ssh to tunnel port 139 from the home > >>>offices to the Samba > >>>server at the main office and runs Quickbooks on > shared > >>>files through it. He > >>>has a shell script to set up the tunnel in a CygWin > shell > >>>using OpenSSH). > >>> > >>>As for applications, I think it's pretty much obvious: > >>>OpenOffice.org and > >>>Mozilla make up the basis for the bulk of the > requirement > >>>outside of > >>>accounting, especially since they both cross over to > the > >>>Windows world. My > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
