--- Dinesh Joshi wrote:
But the problem with Open Office:
- With average machines, it performs slow
Average machines need to be defined here, with specifications.
- The documents it generates are not 100%
compatible with Ms.Office
True. Though, the solution could be using OpenOffice under Windows as well, that seems to be more difficult to achieve.
One more issue that I perceive is that distros don't always have good hardware compatibility. Let me explain it in more detail. Ubuntu 6.06 worked well on my friend's machine. No issues. But Ubuntu 7.04 refuses to work on the same machine. Some driver compatibility issues.
If the vendor sells Intel Hardware (processor, motherboad) it shouldn't be very difficult. There are rare cases of incompatible between different versions, with Intel Hardware, AFAIK.
The other issue that people in India generally face is of bandwidth. Ubuntu installs well. It impresses them. But then it runs up HUGE bills downloading softwares.
The best alternative I can think of, apart from Apt-ON CD, is installation with a DVD of that distribution. Sure, we don't know the percentage of homes / offices with DVD drives, but assembled computers _will_ have Combo drives (CDRW plus DVD-ROM) or even DVD+-RW drives in them, because the vendor (could) insist on having one. Yikes! people would buy illegally copied movie DVDs, though.
-- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc
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