What is the best distro for my business manager?

John J. Boyer john.boyer at abilitiessoft.com
Sun Nov 25 19:22:49 UTC 2012


When I went to the home page for LibreOffice and then to download and 
then to rpm 386/64, ehen to english there was only a pre-release 
version. A wikipedia article said it was only 5 days old. There is no 
information about accessibility. It looks like LibreOffice needs more 
time to ripen.

John

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:13:24PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> grml under these criteria is another distro to consider.  It's a security 
> hardened version of debian.  Basic installation gets a command line 
> interface and then the installers cn install the other parts needed on top 
> of the command line interface.  Last time I checked grml was still being 
> maintained.On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jason White wrote:
> 
> > John J. Boyer <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >I'm getting sick of dealing with Windows. My business manager is 
> > >agreeable to a switch, using OpenOffice. What is the best Linux distro 
> > >for someone who does mostly wordprocessing, online shopping, email and 
> > >accounting?
> > 
> > My suggestion would be to start with a good, well-maintained distribution such
> > as Debian or Fedora, then install the desktop environment and applications of
> > your choice. Others have already made suggestions in regard to those.
> > 
> > If you want extra stability, then choose one of the "enterprise"
> > distributions, or a derivative, or Debian stable or even Ubuntu LTS.
> > 
> > I think it's better to start by choosing a desktop environment and
> > applications, then a distribution based on its maintenance policy, packaging
> > system and other features.
> > 
> > I'd personally choose either Debian or Red Hat/Fedora, or maybe OpenSUSE/Suse
> > (although I haven't had any experience with SUSE in any of its forms). They're
> > the long-term players who have the most experience and expertise from the
> > kernel level through to the application level.
> > 
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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