Anyone who uses anything other than OpenOffice/StarOffice to exchange with Windows office programs is stupid. The filters with Abiword and Kword just don't cut it.
That is unless your are sending a document one way to a Windows user when you can use LaTeX and send them a pdf - by far the best option
Should still run NT. At work we have a alpha box which our IT department is running NT on - Too many dumb MCSE's to run a *NIX. Remember NT is just VMS plus the Windoze GUI so it should be at home on an old DEC box.
Rumour has it that M$ ported NT to alpha to head off DEC from complaining about it ripping off VMS for NT.
About a year ago it happened to me - the fan died and the power supply went. Fortunately the all the drives survived and I was able to rescue all my data in the next machine.
I have had Caldera 2.1, Red Hat 6.1 and Mandrake 8.2 happily co-existing with win 98 on various machines I have had over the past couple of years. Maybe its time for you to give Linux another try.
I fully agree with you - Mandrake Linux is suitable for the non-geek desktop.
On my system I find that Mandrake 8.2 boots faster than win 98SE. The installation is slower but just as easy and the extra time is taken in installing about 2.5 Gig of programs compared to less than 1 Gig for win98.
I gather Walmart is going to distribute Microtel PC's with Mandrake preloaded in the near future. That will offer a real alternative to windoze.
Dell gave up Linux on the Desktop because of blackmail from the Redmond Beast. As was shown from the MS emails in the MS anti-trust case.
Fry's as a small consumer electronic's chain may not be getting the sort of major discounts that that the Beast can threaten.
Furthermore Walmart is about to start shipping online PC's preloaded with Mandrake. They don't get the major discounts that the big OEM's get but they might just get bought off by MS offering it to them. But then the anti-trust case may prevent that.
Linux is kept from being sold preloaded on PC's by anti-competitive monoply action not because there is no demand.
BTW I think we should call PC's with Linux loaded on them Personal Workstations to differentiate them from Windoze boxes and to indicate their superiority.
They look foul - what have they done to gnumeric - it is all giant toolbars and no spreadsheet. Where is the pager? I am a gnome user - I hope you can customize it to something better than this.
You still don't get it - what is attractive to government financial auditors about Linux and GPL software - is the free as in free beer. They don't want to pay for a proprietary layer on top.
The Labeled Release experiment on the Viking Mars Lander back in the seventies showed good evidence for microbial life on Mars. It was dismissed at the time on no real scientific grounds. The project leader of the experiment Dr. Gilbert V. Levin has maintained the validity of the results ever since: http://www.biospherics.com/mars.
The new evidence for water on Mars is yet another reason that the Viking Lander result should be considered as important for evidence for life on mars and that Dr. Levin's proposed chiral labeled release experiment should be incorporated in a forthcoming Mars probe.
For the near future the European Space Agency's British/German Mars Lander Beagle, http://beagle2.open.ac.uk , offers a golden opportunity for detecting life on Mars next year
Not only has Linux undergone testing by the NSA - The NSA itself is currently running the secure Linux project.
Stenbit the DoD CIO (a) has no idea of what's going on and (b) is regurgitating the M$ FUD for his masters in the Whitehouse (George W. Bush a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Inc.).
The military wants secure software and they will get it - Linux is here to stay in the Pentagon whatever Dubya and his M$ owned administration want.
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Yes, I'm serious. I'd take WordPerfect 5.1 over Star Office. Star Office has a looooong way to go.
I have both WP 5.1 (in dosemu) and SO 5.2 on my home machine.
My wife uses WP and I use LaTeX (and gnumeric for my personal spreadsheets).
But SO is great for opening up and working on all those.doc and.xls file that come my way - do that on WP 5.1 !
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It makes sense as, since China has joined the WTO, the government has made efforts to stope the use of "pirated" software in government institutions. So StarOffice will be installed in all the schools because it is free and legal.
Students will grow up using SO and never want to use M$ Office. Microsoft sales of Office will dry up and never take off in China.
The biggest market in the world has been denied to M$ - Drown in your tears Bill.
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What do I get in my $75.95 product purchase that I don't get in the free project?
The boxed set with CD ROM and instruction manual.
Some user support from Sun
The Adabas data base and some extra fonts.
Many of the hackers that developed this program were paid. First in its proprietary phase as StarOffice originally developed by Star AG. Sun Microsystems took over the company - they gave the office suite away free (as in beer not as in freedom) to bug M$ while still using only their paid programmers to develop it. Sun took the decision to release it as a free (free as in freedom) open source project a year or two ago.
There are I believe paid Sun hackers still working as the core team of the project and there are also Boeing (as in big things with wings) hackers whose programming time for the project has been donated by the company. There are I believe a large number of volunteer hackers working on the project but they are all gaining marketable skills, CV entries and maybe just having fun. Everyone gains (including Sun in its object of reducing M$ control on the desktop). As an oo user I would like to thank all who contributed to its development.
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That is unless your are sending a document one way to a Windows user when you can use LaTeX and send them a pdf - by far the best option
Whats wrong with consumption - We have an entire universe to consume. We need more consumption not less.
Rumour has it that M$ ported NT to alpha to head off DEC from complaining about it ripping off VMS for NT.
About a year ago it happened to me - the fan died and the power supply went. Fortunately the all the drives survived and I was able to rescue all my data in the next machine.
I have had Caldera 2.1, Red Hat 6.1 and Mandrake 8.2 happily co-existing with win 98 on various machines I have had over the past couple of years. Maybe its time for you to give Linux another try.
On my system I find that Mandrake 8.2 boots faster than win 98SE. The installation is slower but just as easy and the extra time is taken in installing about 2.5 Gig of programs compared to less than 1 Gig for win98.
I gather Walmart is going to distribute Microtel PC's with Mandrake preloaded in the near future. That will offer a real alternative to windoze.
Every time I get a new box my wife insists on moving the IBM keyboard to it. She is a touch typist and swears that any other keyboard slows her down.
It certainly has been a reliable old workhorse.
Fry's as a small consumer electronic's chain may not be getting the sort of major discounts that that the Beast can threaten.
Furthermore Walmart is about to start shipping online PC's preloaded with Mandrake. They don't get the major discounts that the big OEM's get but they might just get bought off by MS offering it to them. But then the anti-trust case may prevent that.
Linux is kept from being sold preloaded on PC's by anti-competitive monoply action not because there is no demand.
BTW I think we should call PC's with Linux loaded on them Personal Workstations to differentiate them from Windoze boxes and to indicate their superiority.
The problem is that on my machine the paper clip is Vigor and I just can't straighten him out.
And VMS bacame Windows NT when Cutler defected to M$.
I think this is very close the the approach the ROX desktop for Linux uses, which is based in the old Acorn RiscOS operating system.
They look foul - what have they done to gnumeric - it is all giant toolbars and no spreadsheet. Where is the pager? I am a gnome user - I hope you can customize it to something better than this.
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BTW The Beeb uses a mix of Solaris and Linux for its servers.
You can use the hydrolytic oxygen and hydrogen as fuel for rockets for Earth return.
The new evidence for water on Mars is yet another reason that the Viking Lander result should be considered as important for evidence for life on mars and that Dr. Levin's proposed chiral labeled release experiment should be incorporated in a forthcoming Mars probe.
For the near future the European Space Agency's British/German Mars Lander Beagle, http://beagle2.open.ac.uk , offers a golden opportunity for detecting life on Mars next year
As a refugee from KDE to Gnome - I'll buy the debunking of the KDE myths.
As a refugee from KDE to Gnome I'll buy that.
Stenbit the DoD CIO (a) has no idea of what's going on and (b) is regurgitating the M$ FUD for his masters in the Whitehouse (George W. Bush a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Inc.).
The military wants secure software and they will get it - Linux is here to stay in the Pentagon whatever Dubya and his M$ owned administration want.
I have both WP 5.1 (in dosemu) and SO 5.2 on my home machine.
My wife uses WP and I use LaTeX (and gnumeric for my personal spreadsheets).
But SO is great for opening up and working on all those .doc and .xls file that come my way - do that on WP 5.1 !
Students will grow up using SO and never want to use M$ Office. Microsoft sales of Office will dry up and never take off in China.
The biggest market in the world has been denied to M$ - Drown in your tears Bill.
The boxed set with CD ROM and instruction manual.
Some user support from Sun
The Adabas data base and some extra fonts.
You pay your money and you make your choice,
maybe Sun wants to concentate on its planned line of x86 Linux servers that go head to head with Dell and move away from the Cobalt appliances
There are I believe paid Sun hackers still working as the core team of the project and there are also Boeing (as in big things with wings) hackers whose programming time for the project has been donated by the company. There are I believe a large number of volunteer hackers working on the project but they are all gaining marketable skills, CV entries and maybe just having fun. Everyone gains (including Sun in its object of reducing M$ control on the desktop). As an oo user I would like to thank all who contributed to its development.
There is a preload for Gnome now. I haven't tried it yet