I am getting new PC for office purpose, can I install Linu..

VT wrote:
> Could you suggest which Linux Disti better than Fedora,

Everyone has their favorite distribution. You appear to be saying you are going
to use it when everyone else is using windows. That is not generally a good idea
if computers are an essential function of the organization such that they have
to talk to each other seamlessly. Guarantee you they will not do it seamlessly
and your in-house folks are not likely able to help you or care to help you.
Even if you do not notice gross problems there are guaranteed to be minor
compatibility problems which can be crucial as Microsoft is often deliberately
obnoxious.

Open Office is more than good enough to be used instead of MS Office. But if MS
does what it has been doing for years it will introduce critical
incompatibilities or even simply search for indications of a thing having been
created by OO and refuse to load it. They deliberately screwed HTML and almost
got away with doing the same to Java. They will be doing it to keep OO out of
the competition.

In other words, don't do it.

> I have Linux RH 9.0, is that Ok,

No. Way too old.

> otherwise I should have Linux RH ES 3.0.

Do you mean RHEL 3.0? Support for it costs money. I don't know how much but it
is your personal budget. Look into it first. If you go with RH then FC4 is the
only thing to use at this time AND do yum -yt upgrade as soon as you know it has
installed. This assumes at least a DSL connection. If all you have is a modem
the first upgrade will take a day or so.

> I don't
> have debian or Mandarake CD's, I don't know howmuch it costs. Thanks
> in advance.

They are all available for free downloads online. If I remember correctly some
of them like Suse charge for upgrades to what is on a distribution disc. It
should all be spelled out on their home pages.

Back when I decided to switch to linux full time I choose Redhat solely because
at the time it was the most common. I could not find any other good reason to
choose among the distros. i reasoned that being the most common there would be
the most people to help.

I have participated in this newsgroup when I switch to linux full time about 7
years ago and almost all the questions have been distribution independent so
maybe my choice was not for the best reason. However so many years later I do
not know of any reason to choose one distribution over another if you want a
fully functional linux distribution. There are some special purpose
distributions such as for A/V or just to be "damn small" linux or that will run
from a CD or some other special purpose. I am certain there are reasons for the
different distributions but I have yet to come across one that makes a
difference to me.

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VT schrieb:
> I am getting new PC for office purpose, can I install Linux instead of
> Windows, also does any equivalent packages like MS-Office, visio
> drawings, project plan software (keep tracking the project), also any
> other software recommned for Linux Desktop. Appreciated for help.
>
> Can some expert suggest me what are the available package for Linux, I
> am going to install Redhat Fedora for this new PC. Thanks in advance.
> VT.
>
Instead of MS-Office use Openoffice2 (inclusive)- most MSOfficeDokuments
work without problems
Drawings - You must take a look which of the included paintprogammes is
the one you like.
I´m not familar to project planning software, cause I don´t use them but
some are included

On Sat, 26 May 2007 19:15:53 -0700, VT wrote:

> Could you suggest which Linux Disti better than Fedora, I have Linux RH
> 9.0, is that Ok, otherwise I should have Linux RH ES 3.0. I don't have
> debian or Mandarake CD's, I don't know howmuch it costs. Thanks in
> advance.

CentOS5 is the free clone of RHEL 5, if you want a RHEL clone then that's
the one you want. Ubuntu has become very popular, it's to Windows like
for my tastes but you might like it. You absolutely do not want to use
RH9, it's completely obsolete and unsupported.

VT wrote:

> I am getting new PC for office purpose, can I install Linux instead of
> Windows, also does any equivalent packages like MS-Office, visio
> drawings, project plan software (keep tracking the project), also any
> other software recommned for Linux Desktop. Appreciated for help.

Well, a first step would be to try OpenOffice under windows to see if you
like it.

> Can some expert suggest me what are the available package for Linux, I
> am going to install Redhat Fedora for this new PC. Thanks in advance.
> VT.

Take a look here:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

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Julian Hofmann

On May 29, 3:19 am, Julian Hofmann <hofman....TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote:
> VT wrote:
> > I am getting new PC for office purpose, can I install Linux instead of
> > Windows, also does any equivalent packages like MS-Office, visio
> > drawings, project plan software (keep tracking the project), also any
> > other software recommned for Linux Desktop. Appreciated for help.
>
> Well, a first step would be to try OpenOffice under windows to see if you
> like it.
>
> > Can some expert suggest me what are the available package for Linux, I
> > am going to install Redhat Fedora for this new PC. Thanks in advance.
> > VT.
>
> Take a look here:http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=...
>
> --
> Julian Hofmann

You should take a look at Ubuntu, the desktop version might be just
what you are looking for.

Information available at: http://www.ubuntu.com/

Chris