[juneau-lug] Re: Fwd: Mapping a drive [dotcomcs@alaska.com]
- From: "Jeremy C. Hansen" <jeremyh@xxxxxxx>
- To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:00:09 -0900
Also, Wine, VMWare... etc, there are several solutions to allowing you to
run MS Office in Linux... Or even Windows in Linux so you can have that
desktop there if you need it... If you want to head towards Sun, check out
SunPCI cards, they are awesome!
Jeremy
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From: "Sean Hegar" <hegarhus@xxxxxxx>
To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 11:27 PM
Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Fwd: Mapping a drive [dotcomcs@xxxxxxxxxx]
>
> check out codeweavers they have some software that allows you to usr ms
> office in linux. if i remeber right xandros has the code weavers software
> built in. i havent tried it yet but that is because i hate to pay for
> software when it is freely available. worth a look.
> sean
> registered linux user 271218
>
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> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 10:58 PM
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>
>
>
> Pascal,
>
> If you want to use Linux you are going to have to adapt and work for it,
it
> is still premature in the way of a full blown desktop solution, and
> honestly, I have mixed feelings about Linux ever becoming the true desktop
> solution because it makes a beautiful server platform, though demand to
move
> away from Microsoft's costly products is growing and is driving consumers
> towards cheaper solutions and encouraging the development of replacement
> solutions.
>
> Mandrake offers many things that 'you know who' doesn't and vice versa.
It
> is going to be extremely hard for users to make the move from applications
> suites like Microsoft OfficeXP for example, robust, colorful, full (I mean
> bloated) featured etc. to Office solutions like
> StarOffice/OpenOffice/KOffice and standalone application like Abiword. If
> you don't care and are perfectly happy like myself w/ Vi as the only text
> editor in existence than I say make the jump to Linux without a lot of
work.
>
> You don't need to map drives anymore NFS mounts are wonderful.
>
> As for fonts, well, increase your font size in Netscape, both 'default
size'
> and 'scaling', it will certaintly help out, or use Lynx, a real web
browser.
> :) Fonts are something that are going to take some time, but they are
> getting alot better.
>
> Check out the new Redhat 8.0, SuSe 8.1, or Lindows, they are getting there
> in the way of supporting the standard desktop needs of users (Word
> Processors, Spreadsheet Applications, Presentation, Money Management,
etc.)
> right out of the box, plus you can have a real "Personal Web Server" (Not
> IIS) that is the same as a real "Enterprise Web Server."
>
> Here is my opinion, if you want to switch to Linux, go for it... I moved
to
> Linux on my desktop at work and have a several installations at home and I
> love it, but for it to work for you and with your cool toys, like digital
> cameras, pdas, scanners, digital tablets, you are going to have to work at
> it. Linux is catching up. If you have a need to copy and paste and drag
and
> drop a bank account from Quicken into Microsoft Access then in to a Word
> Document then back into MSPaint stay with Microsoft because cross
> application development is not the focus in Linux at this time and
probably
> won't be for awhile.
>
> -- OTHERWISE, WELCOME ABOARD!!! --
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeremy C. Hansen
>
> PS. I used Windows write this e-mail and I feel dirty, but unfortunately
I
> have a Messaging and Scheduling Class (Outlook XP) and if I don't I will
> received teachers atachments from my teachers labeled winmail.dat because
> Microsoft had to development MSRTF that mail servers eat and only Outlook
> 2000/XP know how to make sense of. From that you should infer why one
> Windows box is almost mandatory if you are active among a large community
of
> average users (Teachers, Employees, Employers, Family).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juneau Linux Users Group" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 1:20 PM
> Subject: [juneau-lug] Fwd: Mapping a drive [dotcomcs@xxxxxxxxxx]
>
>
> >
> > On 2002.11.30 23:07 Pascal Vincent wrote:
> > Good morning all!
> >
> > I am using mandrake for few months now and I am trying to dump my XP
> > box but there is still many things that I am no capable of doing with
> > my linux box. If anyone has some time...thanks for the help!
> >
> > 1) on windows you can simply map a drive on a network by right clicking
> > on My computer and then select Map Network drive...how do you that on a
> > linux box?
> >
> > 2) I use mozilla on my linux box ( and on XP as well but that is
> > irrelevant) an the fonts are sometimes impossible to read. I tried
> > many changes but I always get to some pages on the web that are
> > difficult to read...any idea?
> >
> > 3) what is the best way to use some windows applications under linux
> > such as office?
> > Thanks for the suggestions. I have not been involved with the club
> > yet but I am following every topic you guys are suggesting on the
> > emails but I have to admit that most of it goes over my head :)
> >
> > - pascal
> >
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