[ILUG-BOM] Re: Pushing Linux through small vendors

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:53:41 +0530, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com said:

1. Microsoft Office - docs and excel spreadsheets

I have found gnumeric to do a decent job with spreadsheets -- it even imports excel files.

2. Internet Explorer - surfing / banking etc..

Firefox, as you say, should work.

3. Tally - accounting

This is a weak spot.

Another problems that one generally faces is that Linux doesn't always work out of the box. When it does, it works wonderfully well but when it comes down to tweaking it to get it to work, its like performing a brain surgery ( for a newbie ).

I have found all my recent Etch installs to just work -- but I generally select my hardware based on compatibility.

manoj