OT: Linux and OpenOffice - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Sep 2008

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jules Richardson jules.richardson99 at gmail.com
Sent 9/6/2008 11:27:57 AM
To: General Discussion GeneralDiscussion@
Subject: Re: OT: Linux and OpenOffice

tonym wrote:
 The old-school distros as nice as these out-of-box? Like Debian/Slackware/Suse/etc... ?

I started out in the SLS days, then went to Slackware and have stuck with it 
ever since.... more effort to set it up how you want it, but then once there 
it works really well.

I can tell you, so far, I am MORE than mildly impressed... little things like:

1) Batteries seem to last about 15-30 minutes more, depending on utilization.
2) In FireFox, entering "google.com" and pressing "enter" the page
come up nearly instantaneous. IE takes 3-4 sec.
3) GUI looks pretty nice - what's with that flaming chicken?  :) reminds me of
HP's "verve" laptop paintjobs.
4) All hardware worked out of the box, but my speakers are messed up, so I can;t play with
sound...

I need to dig a little more, and get into setting up the other requirements.

Tony