November 06, 2002
Linux at work

I'm getting a new machine at work (my old one keeps crashing, yuck) and got approval to put linux on it instead of our company-standard win2k. I'll be the first employee with linux on the desktop, yay.

All our documentation is in Word format, but that's not a problem since open office works just fine with Word docs.

This will have quite a few benefits for me.. aside from the obvious one, no more windows.

  • I'll no longer have to use XDMCP to run X desktop from our sun server on my NT box -- less network traffic.
  • I'll work on the local machine, not the sun server -- less stress on that machine (it's shared with a few of my co-workers)
  • I"ll never have to see the BSOD again!

I'm sure I'll think of some other ones later..

Posted November 06, 2002 08:03 PM in Geek Stuff
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On November 7, 2002 03:56 AM Jeremy Zawodny added:

Woohoo!

I snuck a linux box into work. I got sick of not being able to "apt-get upgrade" my FreeBSD box. :-)

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On November 7, 2002 06:29 AM nick added:

As per if you find an Office document that doesn't work properly attach both it and the attempted OpenOffice.org translation to an Issue in our bug database IssueZilla and talented people will poke at it.

Glad you get a chance to use the product.

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On November 7, 2002 08:29 AM Tony Steidler-Dennison added:

OpenOffice is pretty close for Word documents. In a pinch, you can use Crossover Office from Codeweavers. It runs in a small version of Wine and runs Word faster than Windows.

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On November 7, 2002 03:17 PM Techie2000 added:

Kasia: what distro do you plan on using? If you use Gentoo, then you don't have to always search for program updates...:-)


Hey Tony, I get your newsletter everyday in my inbox, great stuff, keep it up :-)

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On December 15, 2002 08:12 PM added:

but then I want to play Warcraft 3 in my office box too, I can't run it on Linux, can I ?

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