Subject: RE: Linux Server and Open Office
From: bamf75 (bamf75@gci.net)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 18:00:38 AKDT
I am in town and I will definitely be at the IT Expo. Right now I have
a RH7.3 box as my first install of Linux. I have heard lots of good
things about both Slackware and Suse, I am trying to think of a network
function that the box could perform that is not systems critical. I
want this to work so the suits will let me continue to use their network
as my own personal computer lab =). Is there any sort of document
management software we could play with? What works best with windows
workstations? How about time management? Print Server? This must be
typical of a windows user, "I just want someone to tell me what works
best."
Open Office is exciting to me. We just paid umzillion bucks to switch
from WordPerfect to Office XP. I would love to see something that works
just as well and you don't have to be a thief to get it for free. Does
anyone know if it will work with existing document management software,
GroupWise, Hot Docs or the like?
At any rate all your help will be, well helpful. Thanks
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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
Of Buddha
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 5:21 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: Linux Server and Open Office
>I am new to Linux (as if you could not tell) and am not sure
>what distro/version to use. Any help/advice would be greatly
>appreciated.
This is a very sticky wicket as everyone has their favorites and distros
they prefer...there is no right or wrong answer. Some are better at
certain jobs than others. Here's what I've gleaned from this list over
the years and after meeting some of the people:
Stan and Justin will tell you Suse is the best.
Greg M. is a Debian advocate.
Mike @ the Library loves *BSD.
Mike @ AIDEA prefers Redhat.
Rich digs Slack
etc.
There are more experienced people on the list than I that can help you
narrow it down a little. If you live in town, you could come out to one
of the Fri informal meetings and try out some of the distros on other
users machines.
>I am also interested in Open_Office, I caught the tail end
>of a discussion yesterday about a Open_Office demo but I am
> not sure by who or where that will take place.
The Open Office discussion was about trolling for an experienced user to
show off and run a demo at the IT Expo next month. I think you should
have your boss take a look-see at this one. :)
-Jim "Buddha" McMorris
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