[techtalk] newbie

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:16:31PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Scott thought:
> Welcome Sue--
> 
> At 12:01 PM 5/18/2001 -0700, Sue Jackson wrote:
> >I've been a PC user on Microsoft software for 12 years and I'm wanting to
> >make the switch to linux on my home pc.
> 
> Ring the bell!
> 
> 
> >Here's the specifics on the box
> >
> >Pentium 200mhz
> >64 meg RAM
> 
> 
> >I'll be looking for replacements for MS Office software (word, excel and a
> >relationship database), Publisher (page layout), Paint Shop Pro (graphics),
> >etc.
> 
> Star Office 5.2 will be in the Mandrake 8.0 cd's.  Gimp will serve you well 
> on graphics.
> Do not know enough the db that comes with Star Office.  There is a 

One caveat regarding StarOffice though, it's a fairly resource hungry
beast and, with your config, it will take some time to load.  Open Office
(the open source version of StarOffice) is in the pipeline and is expected
to be less of a hog though it's not ready for the big time just yet.

Conor

PS. Welcome!
-- 
Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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