[ale] Building the perfect Linux end-user systems.

[Dow_Hurst]

You can try out Novell/Suse's latest version of OO which has VB support in Calc.  However, Codeweaver CXoffice running MSOffice 2000 sounds more like what you would want for school projects.  I understand your pain dealing with MSoffice requirements.
Dow

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 7, 2006 1:28 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] Building the perfect Linux end-user systems.
>
>James Taylor wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not a hard-core linux hacker, and I don't use windows in any
>> form, so Linux is my sole productivity tool.  I have to have stuff
>> that just works.
>>
>
>Same here.  I use Ubuntu for all of my school stuff; the only thing that
>really can't fill the shoes I need filled is the office suite software -
>but that isn't the fault of Ubuntu.  There simply isn't something that
>fits what my school expects, other than Microsoft Word, Excel, and
>PowerPoint.  OOo for the moment doesn't do certain types of OLE-embedded
>stuff all that well, particularly when it was originally composed in MS
>Word.
>
>Unfortunately, there probably isn't any expectation that it will be
>resolved any time soon, and I am prohibited from doing things like
>charts and graphs in other software and including the image of it.  They
>want Microsoft Graph Charts to be used, which has to be done using OLE.  :-/
>
>> 
>> I almost never have to worry about dependency issues.  If I had to
>> work at getting my platform to work rather than using my platform to
>> work, then I would look elsewhere, but I haven't had to.  When I have
>> tried other distros, I have never found one as easy to use and
>> support.
>> 
>
>Well, maybe SuSE has something better than what some of the other
>distributions use.  I think that the distribution in question that I was
>helping someone with was Red Hat based, both in that it used RPMs, and
>that it used Red Hat's software.
>
>In any case, RPM lost me in the 90s, and based on what recent things I
>have seen, it still has many of the same failings.  I have not run into
>any issues with the Debian packaging scheme.  With Ubuntu picking up
>users like it is, and supporters (there are plenty of software pieces
>that now offer Ubuntu-specific packages, like Democracy TV, which was
>featured in this month's LJ), I am pretty well inclined to stick with
>it.  :-)
>
>The only thing that I don't use Ubuntu for, is a server.  I tried it,
>and I wasn't really impressed.  For that matter, I don't really use
>Linux at all for servers; I prefer FreeBSD -- it just makes server tasks
>easier.
>
>	-- Mike
>
>-- 
>Michael B. Trausch <fd0man at gmail.com> - Jabber: fd0man at livejournal.com
>
>Demand freedom: Use open and free protocols, standards, and software.
>


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