On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:29:51PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
> :>OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm
> :>going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad
> :>habit of losing files in hard crashes and power outages, this isn't a
> :>problem for s
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0700, Forrest English wrote:
| you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit
| the power switch.
|
| i mean, it's just a thought.
It's a nice thought, but since when do people actually listen?
I know that with my machine I don't _
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Sean Morgan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0700, Forrest English wrote:
> > you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit
> > the power switch.
> >
> > i mean, it's just a thought.
>
> And after this you would have to proceed to tea
:25 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:03:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
:Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm
:>
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0700, Forrest English wrote:
> you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit
> the power switch.
>
> i mean, it's just a thought.
And after this you would have to proceed to teach a class in operating consoles,
top, killall, and al
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:03:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
:Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm
:>going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad
:>habit of losing files in hard crashes and power ou
D-Man writes:
> I've only had 1 problem with my system where I had to run fsck and I've
> hit the power button a few times...
How is your system partitioned? In my experience the systems most likely
to be hosed by a power failure or hard reset are those with a single giant
partition.
--
John Has
On Monday 04 June 2001 23:42, Sean Morgan wrote:
>
> The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a
> temporary interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites
> of any kind), and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the
> reset button(this could
Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm
>going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad
>habit of losing files in hard crashes and power outages, this isn't a
>problem for someone like you or I as we know
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:29:51PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
:I have been running Linux 2.0.36 for the past year on 3 sites and have had
:ext2 go down on each of them after a power failure.
I'd guess the nonbootability was the result of a head crash, and had
nothing to do with the filesystem softwar
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:58:53AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
| D-Man writes:
| > I've only had 1 problem with my system where I had to run fsck and I've
| > hit the power button a few times...
|
| How is your system partitioned? In my experience the systems most likely
| to be hosed by a power fa
you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit
the power switch.
i mean, it's just a thought.
i've never had a problem with ext2, and there are power outages here all
the time, and my ups is to weak to handle more than my server and dsl
router. somtimes i've had to r
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:42:18PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote:
:The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a
temporary
:interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites of any kind),
:and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the reset button(th
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> "Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes
> > WordPerfect and Quattro Pro.
>
> Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of
> thi
Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It only has a very small section on kword, which after all, is currently one
> of the best Linux word processors out there.
That's not saying much. Does KWord have a decent printing/font
architecture yet?
--
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a vari
I would suggest that that review is a little old.
It only has a very small section on kword, which after all, is currently one
of the best Linux word processors out there.
If you want my advice (I'm a journalist and sysadmin), Kword is fast, free
and approaching stability. It's now useable for
LinuxPlanet has a side-by-side review of all the word processors for Linux,
including:
StarOffice 5.2
WordPerfect 9
AbiWord
Applix Words
Maxwell
KWord (part of KOffice, for KDE)
The review is at:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1762/1/
-- Kevin
"Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes
> WordPerfect and Quattro Pro.
Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of
this product, there was almost no support of WP8, and getting fixes
for any nu
Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes
WordPerfect and Quattro Pro.
http://linux.corel.com/products/wpo2000_linux/index.htm
The suite is about $150 a copy. buy.com has a 5-pack which is a better
deal, but it is back-ordered.
There is also Applix:
http://www.v
First of all, let me apologize to everyone on the list for knocking the
signal/noise ratio out of whack, I'll stop saying inflamitory things after this
post.
>If you are going to have to foot the financial burden for even a small network
>using Microsoft products (you said 12) the cost is rather
From: "J.A.Serralheiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:36:34 +0100 (WET DST)
hi. Just installed staroffice in my computer. Believe it or not, my
computer is (Still) a 48
If you are going to have to foot the financial burden for even a small
network using Microsoft products (you said 12) the cost is rather
prohibitive if you are depending on local budgets. I suspect that is the
reason for seeking a replacement rather than "evangelizing" Linux. It is
just for this re
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:19:10PM +1000, Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> >
> > That doesn't work for me. I've found in the past that Google uses
> > distributed servers, on which content may vary. Could you resubmit the
> > URL above resolving a numeric I
I'm running WP 8.1, which came bundled with Corel Linux 1.0 (not free,
but $25 on a closeout at Costco, with a "Tux" toy and a $10 rebate--I
bought it just for WP and the manual). This version came as a .deb and
works very nicely. I don't see that problem.
Bob
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:15:08AM
Word Perfect works find in my machine. While I was in Redhat,
had d/l it as .tar format. And it just installs perfectly in
Debian too. And I have found a bug or something too.
When I type the word "miniscule" followed by a space, wp8
immediately crashes and disappers from screen. I don't
* Joel Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-21 09:12 +0200:
> Has any one here used LyX, I got on to it a couple of months ago and
> It is the best word procesor I have every used, and not to difficult
> to learn, as it's a "what you see is what is mean" procesor it
> would let the students concentr
"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
>
> That doesn't work for me. I've found in the past that Google uses
> distributed servers, on which content may vary. Could you resubmit the
> URL above resolving a numeric IP for your local Google server?
Try:
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:dc3d113b15c77caf:www
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:20:52PM +1000, Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Sorry about the last post... my fingers slipped on the 'send mail' kb
> shortcut. That's what I get for using Netscape messenger...
>
> "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> > - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 40
Sorry about the last post... my fingers slipped on the 'send mail' kb
shortcut. That's what I get for using Netscape messenger...
"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 404
> http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html, and its parent suggest it
> won't come back
"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 404
> http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html, and its parent suggest it
> won't come back any time soon http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/
> (K'mon, people:
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html).
Luc
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:42:01PM +1000, Joel Mayes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:35:50PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote:
> > > StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as Office on NT4. The
> >
OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm
going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad
habit of losing files in hard crashes and power outages, this isn't a
problem for someone like you or I as we know how to recover them, for a
student with no
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:35:50PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote:
> > StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as Office on NT4. The
>
> From my experience, t
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote:
> StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as Office on NT4. The
From my experience, that is *completely* untrue. I have
never had either of th
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote:
> . . . WordPerfect or StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as
> Office on NT4.
I've never had SO or WP8 crash on me since I set up this system.
Granted, WP9 is incredibly unstable.
> The stability of the filesystem is also a ma
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:53:19PM +, joe golden wrote:
> I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT network over to Linux. Some
> of the main computer applications at our school are web browsing , word
> processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer, Word and Excel).
>
> I am runn
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:06:00PM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote:
> For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There
> is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that
> it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not
> sure about the depends.
It will work on Debian, if you install pac
On Sun, 20 May 2001, D. Hoyem wrote:
>For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There
>is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that
>it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not
>sure about the depends.
When they came out with Corel Linux, they made a .deb file for WP8. I
on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:53:19PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT network over to Linux.
> Some of the main computer applications at our school are web browsing,
> word processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer, Word and
> Exce
For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There
is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that
it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not
sure about the depends.
--- joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT
> network over to Lin
i think star office is going to be your best bet as far as word
proccessing and graphing goes. though, koffice might work, i havn't used
it in a long time, and it seemd nice enough then, so it might work for
you now.
might want to think of using one of the newer mozilla builds. they're
fast enou
Hey,
I personally like Mozilla a lot better than Netscape, and if you're looking
for something w/ quick load times, use galeon. It uses the gecko rendering
engine, and it has a pretty slick interface.
StarOffice probably would be the best solution for your office replacement.
It also has a brows
I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT network over to Linux. Some
of the main computer applications at our school are web browsing , word
processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer, Word and Excel).
I am running Linux debian 2.2.18pre21 and just updated last week.
Netscape ma
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