Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3394 mails)

[samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Samy Elashmawy)]

I just tried applixware and star office an a P150/32meg ram and built in 2
meg vidio. Staroffice is a complete system hog. SLOOOOW , even slower with
KDE. I removed it and am using applixware. I runs nicely with xfce and I
like the fact that is has sql ability. Hopefullyu I can use it with
postgress for minor database apps.

I couldent get wordperfect to print in coler , something with the s rptint
drivers and pass throgh postscript not suporting color. every tthing
esleprints in color.

This is the first machine for office use that is soly rung linux. no
windows ( I allready ahve a fileserver and anm still tring to get the
firewall working). So the good news is that we oo are also weaning
ourselofs off of M$. It just take time and applications. Cant wait for
Wordperfect Office. That I cant wait to try out.

At 08:58 AM 3/17/2000 -0700, Buddy Coffey wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Paul Sims wrote:
>
>> Most Windows users wouldn't notice if you put Linux on their boxes, as
long 
>> as the apps worked the same.
>
>Here's a real-life story of one organization making the transition. 
>The company wants to get rid of old SGI hardware and standardize to one
>type of platform and OS.  The engineers have been using the SGIs for
>scientific work and PC/Win machines for writing reports, etc.
>
>Their solution was to give everyone Linux PCs with a VMWare
>"Win-in-a-Box" in which to run their old M$ apps.  It didn't matter if
>VMWare wasn't as efficient as native hosting.  After all, how many CPU
>cycles does it take to process a keystroke? :)
>
>The engineers are delighted.  They have more powerful workstations for
>their scientific work (done natively with Linux/X) and can still write
>reports, etc., with M$ Office stuff on a VMWare machine.  As they wean
>themselves away from M$ Office, the engineers are beginning to use
>Applixware and/or StarOffice.
>
>Very best,
>Buddy Coffey
>Advanced Electromagnetics
>
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