A colleague was having a hard time with her copy of MS Works at home and was For those of you reading this who don’t know about Open Office, then these Read the web site<\/a> for more details There is a new member of staff at work who will be spending the majority of So, starting off with a Debian<\/a> Sarge She is a fairly novice user, but as such has no preconceptions about how a PC desktop works; I certainly don’t expect her to complain that “It doesn’t work like Windows”<\/i>. It will be interesting to see how she gets on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Open Office A colleague was having a hard time with her copy of MS Works at home and was lamenting the high cost of purchasing a copy of Microsoft Office. In an effort to Spread The FOSS Word (FOSS == Free and Open Source Software), I gave her a CD with the latest version of… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nlamenting the high cost of purchasing a copy of Microsoft Office. In an effort
\nto Spread The FOSS Word (FOSS == Free and Open Source Software), I gave her a CD
\nwith the latest version of Open Office<\/a>
\non it.<\/p>\n
\nare its key features:<\/p>\n\n
\n Impress (like MS Powerpoint). These components all read and write documents
\n and files from the corresponding Microsoft Office programs;<\/li>\n
\nand for the free download (it’s about 50MB for a standard installation).
\nAlternatively, give me a shout and I’ll burn off a CD for you.<\/p>\nNovice user, Debian Sarge \/ KDE desktop<\/h4>\n
\nher time using a nutritional coding program, capturing information from food
\ndiaries. This coding application runs under Linux, not Windows. Others have
\ndone this before, but this is the first person to be taken on full-time to do
\nthis work. For the other staff I gave them a fairly minimal Linux dual-boot
\ninstallation so that they could use this program, but spend most of their time running Windows. This one’s different, however.
\nGiven that she will be spending all her time running the coding program, her
\nLinux installation will be ‘home’ and needs to have Everything She Is Likely To
\nNeed. She will also be the first non-geek in our department to use a Linux
\ndesktop full-time: she is aware of this and of her status as ‘guinea pig’ in
\nthis regard.<\/p>\n
\ninstallation, she is now getting to know her KDE<\/a> desktop. Her PC is nice and fast, with lots
\nof RAM, so I have switched on lots of pretty desktop eye candy, for that “Oooh,
\n nice!” factor – in fact, others in the office have spotted that too: “Hey, look, Windows with round curvy corners, that looks nice!”<\/i> etc. She is using Mozilla Firefox<\/a> for her web
\nbrowsing, Mozilla
\nThunderbird<\/a> for her email (I’ve installed Enigmail<\/a> so that she can verify
\n digital signatures; I suspect it might be a while before she learns
\n about all that properly though), the above-mentioned OpenOffice for her
\ndocuments and spreadsheets etc.<\/p>\n