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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Progress report
- From: Roger Whittaker <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:47:45 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002211045550.1250-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
>
> > system - pupils will be able to use Linux or Windows with no
> > difference (assuming Star Office stores in a common file format for
> > each platform).
>
> StarOffice does, but the network version has one or two problems. The main
> one is that the print command is stored in full in the file, and that file
> will crash SO if re-loaded into a situation where the default printer is
> not the same as the one when it was saved, though it loads into a Windows
> version OK. I look forward to 5.2 where I hope this bug s fixed.
Coming out very soon, we hear.
> Another is that if the user's directory is on a NFS-mounted remote drive,
> lots of system file corruptions seem to appear.
There is a fix described on our web site for at least some of the problems
with StarOffice and NFS-mounted home directories.
> I should be interested to be in touch with others who use SO on a fully
> networked thin-client basis (the code running on a central server) with
> lots of users. It's tough on the server!
>
>
> > The only job left is to find a way for users to access their email -
> > we use Mercury and Pegasus, which puts the email directly into
> > their filespace. This shouldn't be too difficult ( I hope).
>
> [Mercury and Pegasus were excellent UK-manufactured computers of the late
> fifties/early sixties. Mercury used to get through valves at an amazing
> rate (those glass things with glowing cathodes inside).]
>
> Pine is a simple multi-platform thin-client email solution [even runs on
> BBCs, but not on a Mercury], but it's a glass teletype and not a windowed
> system. Editing, pasting, printing and attachment handling all require
> just a little user intelligence.
>
>
--
Roger Whittaker
SuSE Linux Ltd
The Kinetic Centre
Theobald Street
Borehamwood
Herts
WD6 4PJ
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020 8387 1482
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roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> > system - pupils will be able to use Linux or Windows with no
> > difference (assuming Star Office stores in a common file format for
> > each platform).
>
> StarOffice does, but the network version has one or two problems. The main
> one is that the print command is stored in full in the file, and that file
> will crash SO if re-loaded into a situation where the default printer is
> not the same as the one when it was saved, though it loads into a Windows
> version OK. I look forward to 5.2 where I hope this bug s fixed.
Coming out very soon, we hear.
> Another is that if the user's directory is on a NFS-mounted remote drive,
> lots of system file corruptions seem to appear.
There is a fix described on our web site for at least some of the problems
with StarOffice and NFS-mounted home directories.
> I should be interested to be in touch with others who use SO on a fully
> networked thin-client basis (the code running on a central server) with
> lots of users. It's tough on the server!
>
>
> > The only job left is to find a way for users to access their email -
> > we use Mercury and Pegasus, which puts the email directly into
> > their filespace. This shouldn't be too difficult ( I hope).
>
> [Mercury and Pegasus were excellent UK-manufactured computers of the late
> fifties/early sixties. Mercury used to get through valves at an amazing
> rate (those glass things with glowing cathodes inside).]
>
> Pine is a simple multi-platform thin-client email solution [even runs on
> BBCs, but not on a Mercury], but it's a glass teletype and not a windowed
> system. Editing, pasting, printing and attachment handling all require
> just a little user intelligence.
>
>
--
Roger Whittaker
SuSE Linux Ltd
The Kinetic Centre
Theobald Street
Borehamwood
Herts
WD6 4PJ
----------------------
020 8387 1482
----------------------
roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----------------------
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