[wplug] new kid in town

[Vanco, Donald]

Shawn Henderson wrote:
> Hello all,
> My name is Shawn I just want to introduce myself. I am a transplant
> from California. I was a member of oclug and uuasc in orange county
> ca. I just joined the list and am interested to see how things work
> here in pa. I am working for a company called Internet Providers.You
> may now them as the local isp called Access995. We just switched 12
> of our workstations to RH 8.0 from windoze xp. The users are having a
> little difficulty with the floppy mount but overall everything seems
> fine. 
	Look into turning on magicdev - but it's a crapshoot as to whether
or not given hardware works with it, or if it locks up the machine, so
proceed with caution.  Not sure if it was even included in RH8.0 - if not,
check freshrpms.net

> Although Open Office is really a hog and keeps locking up the
> PC's. Are there any ideas on a windoze compatible office suite that
> is kinda lean. I know star office but to complex of a learning curve
> for these users and kde office is just not good enough yet. Any help
> would be appreciated. Thanks
	You'll likely hear lots of folks refer to OpenOffice, but if you
deal with pure MS environs you may be left somewhat disappointed.... for
now. Depending on who you ask it has full support of (at least) Office 97
(and some say) Office 2000, but when it comes to hooks from OfficeXP it's
lacking.  Moving presentations to/from Office environs has been less than a
satisfactory experience, but generating them is very well done.  My $.02
anyway..

Don