On Monday 05 May 2003 16:47, Sean Rima wrote:
****************** Sean, If you are not so far along with XP right now, you could reinstall that using FAT32 file system. The advantages of that would be two fold. First SuSE can automatically resize those for you to do a dual boot and second, you can read & write to those partitions! Problem solved, XP for the wife, until of course you convert her, and Linux for you!
You even might try setting up KDE just like XP to fool the wifey into using Linux without her know it! Be sure to get OpenOffice for Windows too, plus Mozilla for browser & mail. If she has he same things on both sides, she will soon learn the advantages of Linux! ;o)
This is of course another option, but then what do I do for outlook which she insists on using and her computer course which she must study at home also depends on access to Access and other MS tools
Sean
Well, you have Wine, which allows you to run Winders programs in Linux and of course KMail will not disappoint her in the least for a mailer or if she prefers a mailer like Eudora, Sylpheed will do nicely. If she needs the full look and feel of Outluck, then Evolution is her answer. OpenOffice does the .doc files, excel files, powerpoint files, etc without a hitch and I suspect you could find many others included with 8.2 to make her happy! Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...