Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-13 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:45:50PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > 2) Are there any printers recommended for use with Debian? Checkout http://www.linuxprinting.org Nico - "It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to cus

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-12 Thread urbanyon
not sure about printers, but star office (now owned by sun) is a very full-featured and free office suite. check it out here: www.sun.com/staroffice On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Tom Huckstep wrote: > I'd like to introduce some of my friends to Debian. However, they > expect an OS to be simple to set u

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-11 Thread Andre Berger
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >[snip some advice] > Notes: > > [1] At some point after I die, I *will* write the oft-promised essay > "The Office Suite is Dead". Meantime, suffice to say that the office > suite was created to solve a marketing problem -- selling software > people didn't want to

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-10 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:31:10AM +, Tom Huckstep ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to introduce some of my friends to Debian. However, they > expect an OS to be simple to set up and use, and to look very nice. > > I am quite happy to set it up for them, I'm sure that they will have > n

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-10 Thread Randy Edwards
> 1) What office software is available (preferably free, but non-free > is fine) for Debian? Both GNOME and KDE have office suites available for them. However, though it's not a Debian package, my favorite is StarOffice. StarOffice is now GPL and though it's a pig for resources, I've fou

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-10 Thread Andre Berger
Tom Huckstep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to introduce some of my friends to Debian. However, they > expect an OS to be simple to set up and use, and to look very nice. > > I am quite happy to set it up for them, I'm sure that they will have > no problems getting used to the Gnome desk

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-10 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:31:10AM +, Tom Huckstep wrote: Hi, > I'd like to introduce some of my friends to Debian. However, they > expect an OS to be simple to set up and use, and to look very nice. hm, the very nice looking depends on the Windowmanager and the toolkits used to build the en

Office software - and printers

2000-12-10 Thread Tom Huckstep
I'd like to introduce some of my friends to Debian. However, they expect an OS to be simple to set up and use, and to look very nice. I am quite happy to set it up for them, I'm sure that they will have no problems getting used to the Gnome desktop environment. However, there are two things that