[Lias] Re: [SLUG] StarOffice Tutorials - slightly OT

Howard Lowndes lannet at lannet.com.au
Sun Aug 5 17:40:30 UTC 2001


Are you running SO in a WinX app then?  or what is the detail?

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Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Anthony Rumble wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Simon Bryan wrote:
>
> > Excuse the slightly OT am asking this here because people are more likely
> > to have had experience with StarOffice.
> > I am trying to wean people off MS Office and onto StarOffice5.2, I like it
> > and it does everything I normally do in Office. If I can get them used to
> > this then perhaps I can also get some Linux desktops going. However at the
> > moment we are using the windows version of SO.
> > I am looking to see if anyone has written any basic 'how to' sheets for the
> > basic applications - eg How to format a document, How to create a
> > spreadsheet etc.
> > If not I have to write my own  :-(
>
> One thing were trying to do with one client, is run XWin32 on their
> existing wintel boxes.. and run StarOffice 5.2 on their server.
> (Star Office runs MUCH MUCH MUCH better this way BTW)..
> So rather than have to raise all their PC's to 128M of ram (expensive)..
> We just put like 512M of ram in the server.
>
> Then.. later, we can look at weeing them to a Linux desktop, with legacy
> apps provided by Win4Lin NSSE (Server edition).
>
>




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