[geeks] Desktops

[Ryn]

What are folks using for free office suites. Star Office, Open Office or
something else?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Desktops


> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:47:52PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:35, Ryn wrote:
> > > Anyone completely  moved away from Winbloze? I am debating ousting
> > > Win2k and converting to Gnome on Linux.
> >
> > I do ALL of my work on Solaris8/GNOME or Linux/GNOME desktops.  I'd use
> > IRIX/GNOME, but my Indy doesn't boot, and I can't figure out how to get
> > the cap to un-solder for testing.  Pan, Evolution, Emacs, and ssh get me
> > around pretty handily.
>
> Now that the semester is over, I only have 2 reasons to continue running
> windows.  The first is for my existing games collection.  The second is to
> run Squeak (it works on linux, but leaves out features, and it works on MacOS,
> but the missing features require better hardware than my working macs have).
> It is handy to keep around.  For testing Windows only things for ideas, etc.
>
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
>
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