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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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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