What is the best distro for my business manager?

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at shellworld.net
Sat Nov 24 19:43:03 UTC 2012


Nothing wrong with downloading libreoffice from the home page so long as 
there's a linux binary available given your work requirements.  The 3.6.2 
version is inaccessible which is why nautilus linux replaced it with an 
accessible version so find the accessible version in a linux binary form 
and you should be good to go. On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, John J. Boyer wrote:

> This thread has been  more productive than most I've seen. 
> 
> My present Linux system is CentOS 5.8 OpenOffice or LibreOffice doesn't 
> seem to be in the repository. If I could install one of them and also 
> get Orca working my business manager could log in with a diffferent 
> username and I could continue to use the machine. Would upgrading to 
> CentOS 6.3 provide LibreOffice?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 07:49:32AM -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> > On 11/23/12 23:04, marbux wrote:
> > > one fact: WinXP runs like cold molasses in Virtual Box, even with
> > > 3 GB of fast RAM devoted exclusively to it on a fast quad-core
> > > CPU.
> > 
> > Is your CPU and Linux configuration set up to take advantage of
> > virtualization?  There's a CPU flag for both AMD and Intel that
> > indicates that the CPU supports virtualization, making it leaps and
> > bounds faster.  You can check with
> > 
> >   egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
> > 
> > If it returns a result, your CPU supports it.  Mine doesn't,
> > unfortunately, so running virtual images is dog slow.
> > 
> > Also, I believe there's a kernel build that adds extra support for
> > virtual machines (on my Debian box, there are
> > "linux-image-{openvz,zen,vserver}" kernels) that give hooks to
> > virtual machines to speed them up.
> > 
> > > Dual-boot is a maddening configuration because of a permutation of
> > > Murphy's Law: What you want to do next seemingly always requires
> > > rebooting the system to access the other OS.
> > 
> > Oh, so true and elegantly expressed.  I tried dual-boot for about a
> > month and was infuriated by the Murphy's Law aspect of it, so I just
> > backed up my data and went pure Linux.
> > 
> > -tim
> > 
> > 
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