[NBLUG/talk] I'm on the war path now!

[E Frank Ball]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:43:40PM -0700, Edward wrote:
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} I'm switching Linux. I want to have the top three suggestions for the best 
} versions of Linux from this group. 

Debian:  My choice.  Huge package selection.  Free.  Easy to
update/upgrade.

SuSE: very large package selection.  Good distribution.

Mandrake and Fedora are also popular.  I've used all of these at one
time.  Fedora is very bleeding edge.  The current verion, Core 3, has
over 3 GB of updates already.


} I have heard that there is a version of OpneOffice that I can use in an Ms 
} environment. My plan is to have one workstation have exclusively Linux on 
} it. And one other workstation have an Ms OS but with NO Ms applications on 
} it whatsoever.

OpenOffice runs on Windows and Linux.  Compatibility with msword docs,
and powerpoint files is good, but far from perfect.  It's as huge and
slow as office.  On Linux there is gnumeric for excel files.  It works
well and is fast.  There is also abiword for msword docs, another faster
stand alone program.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us