Posted by: WarPengi
on September 14, 2002 09:54 PM
One of the things you mention is Samba. Despite many hours of fiddlin' I have been unable to get file sharing between my Linux and Windows machines. I expect windows to have difficulty seeing my Linux machine but had hoped that Linux would find my windows machine.
I use OpenOffice for all my document/spreadsheet needs and have found it highly satisfactory. The install is almost like a windows install once it is untarred. Neat I thought, also an area where Linux needs to improve to attract the windows user. Frequently RPM's for Mandrake(my distro)don't work properly. I have found it safer and more reliable to install the tarball than to mess with RPM's but even then the specter of dependency hell looms often. Not to mention that installing an older library creates other conflicts. So, LSB can't get it together soon enough for me.
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Posted by: WarPengi on September 14, 2002 09:54 PMI use OpenOffice for all my document/spreadsheet needs and have found it highly satisfactory. The install is almost like a windows install once it is untarred. Neat I thought, also an area where Linux needs to improve to attract the windows user. Frequently RPM's for Mandrake(my distro)don't work properly. I have found it safer and more reliable to install the tarball than to mess with RPM's but even then the specter of dependency hell looms often. Not to mention that installing an older library creates other conflicts. So, LSB can't get it together soon enough for me.
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