I understand that some of the people coming in will want an Off*ce
replacement, but not everyone will. Same thing with Ph*t*sh*p and Gimp.
What gets installed for a customer should be up to the customer, although a
list of available alternatives might be nice to have - just to show them that
they don't need to pay exorbitant proprietary license fees.
With the wealth of questions and issues floating around, should we try to get
a face-to-face meeting scheduled?
On Sunday 26 May 2002 16:45, you wrote:
> On Sunday 26 May 2002 16:25, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 26. May, 2002 schwätzte Elburn@aol.com so:
> > > Will you be installing (free or for sale) Star Office so that people
> > > can do something with the new OS??
> >
> > I haven't seen anything about what software we intend to make available.
> >
> > Open Office, I think, is definitely something that will be on that list.
> >
> > We need to figure out what functionality we want to provide and what
> > programs fulfill that functionality.
> >
> > I think this gets down to the level of making sure there are minesweeper
> > and tetris clones as well as solitaire suites in the default loads.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
>
> Both Belarc Advisor www.belarc.com and PC-Check www.eurosoft-uk.com do a
> nice job of hardware/software inventory on a PC.
>
> If we are setting up Internet and e-mail for them, they will need logon and
> pasword info. Not something that the ordinary Windows user has at the
> ready.
>
> Oh, and someone better pick up a couple of dozen "AOL 7.0 for Linux" CDs at
> CompUSA, too. <g>
>
> Dennis Kibbe
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