On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Mike or Trish Oberholzer wrote:
> I am looking for an alternative OS that will allow me to do basic home
> computing such as email, internet access, database and wordprocessing with
> the ability to convert files to other software formats. Will Debian do this
> for me?
Sure. Are you familiar with unix at all? There's a little bit of a
learning curve (not as quick as Win95, but much *cheaper* :)
email and internet access are GREAT under linux.
I don't do much database work, so maybe someone else here can answer that
question.
Word processing is possible with one of a few office suites, at least two
of which can import/export MSWord or other formats. Also, if you do
technical publications, LaTeX is fully available -- as a matter of fact,
I use it as my only word processing system.
By the way, this question probably belongs on the debian-user list rather
than on debian-devel (so I've cc'd it to -user instead). The devel list
was intended for questions about the "work in progress", the upcoming 2.0
release.
Will
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