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    Products to rival Microsoft for free

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by camsimple, May 27, 2006.

  1. camsimple

    camsimple Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey I am sure someone else already posted this, but my friend told me of this opensource version of MS Office. It comes basically with everything Office does and the interface looks pretty much the same, but this time it's free. Check it out. www.openoffice.org

    (and no, I am not affiliated with Open Office at all. Just wanted to share free software info)
     
    camsimple, May 27, 2006
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  2. Tim

    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yeah it is already mentioned in the free software stickie at the top of this page. I like Word so I will just stay with that. :p
    Tim
     
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  3. camsimple

    camsimple Notebook Evangelist

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    Whoops, sorry. You can remove this thread.
     
    camsimple, May 27, 2006
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  4. Shel

    Shel Notebook Evangelist

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    camsimple
    No need to appologize. I happened to also know about Open Office, but that doesn't mean everyone knows about it, or has checked it out!

    it's an excellent tip! If one or two people who didn't know about it find out about it through your thread, then it was certainly worth posting.

    That's how we all learn....
     
    Shel, May 27, 2006
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  5. prasys

    prasys Notebook Geek

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    If you wish to change the whole thing.....I would rather go for Linux.... :D...I wish someday that Linux would attract Windows users...Anyway , thanks for pointing it out
     
    prasys, May 29, 2006
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  6. SoFloAcer

    SoFloAcer Notebook Geek

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    I wanted to try Linux so I went to Ubuntu and had them send me 5.10. I wanted to install it on a 10gig partition on my notebook harddrive, but couldn't get it to work. The instructions were pretty cryptic and came with a warning that essentially said "know what you are doing or you might wipe out all data on the disk." I then decided to try the psuedo environment (Live CD) by running it from the cd...but after a few command lines, it would hang. I don't know if I received a bad image or what, but either way, I wasn't able to get any linux going :confused: . Maybe I need to try a different flavor?
     
    SoFloAcer, May 29, 2006
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  7. flxrms

    flxrms Notebook Enthusiast

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    it would really take a while(or never?) before any ordinary joe can really use linux and be comfortable with it...
     
    flxrms, May 30, 2006
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  8. Bokazoit

    Bokazoit Notebook Geek

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    Me too, but two things in it's way:

    1. Linux is difficult to learn for the novice...I can handle that though :p
    2. Games or very few games can be played on linux...And that I can't accept...and two boot-partions isn't the way imho
     
    Bokazoit, May 30, 2006
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