This is part of The Pile, a partial archive of some open source mailing lists and newsgroups.
To: Craig Oda - Personal email <craigoda@communitybuilders.info> Cc: Silicon Valley Linux User Group <svlug@svlug.org> Subject: Re: [svlug] KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice, Konqueror, Nautilus, StarOffice Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:13:35 -0800 From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:50:58 -0800 (PST) Craig Oda <- Personal email <craigoda@communitybuilders.info>> wrote: > My question is what are other people doing about Linux as a > business desktop? Word processing: LaTeX under LyX -- an utterly incredible system. Wonderful stuff. I read equally good things about the AucTex mode under (X)Emacs for writing LaTeX, and I plan on investigating that at some point (I use XEmacs heavily elsewhere), but for now LyX is more than pleasing. The fact that LaTeX can trivially produce beautiful (in both a typographic and layup sense) print copy, PDFs, HTML, and flat text is a really nice bonus. For reading files from things like Word, I usually use wordview from the catdoc package to dump it to flat text. If I need to preserve the formatting I'll use one of AbiWord, KWord, or StarOffice (they each fail/and succeed on complex Word files slightly differently). Slides/presentations: I read good things about MagicPoint. I haven't used it. I like and use HTML running under some browser (currently Galeon). Spreadsheet: gnumeric (I do little/no spreadsheet work, but this does what I need for what little I do do). Database: PostgresQL > The primary thing I like about KDE is the extent to which > konqueror is integrated into everything. However, I'm worried > that koffice may not have the same level of features as StarOffice > 6. Suggestions from anyone? ObNote: While I can't comment on konqueror or KDE specifically (or GNOME for that matter) as I don't run them, and I tend to select against and dislike that sort of integration and unified model. I tend to prefer tools and applications that do one thing, and do that well, than tools that try and be hippy friends with the universe. ===