Linux Desktop for university staff

[Arkajyoti Misra]

> 
> Office: Openoffice.org. Write and calc are perfect alternatives to word and
> excel. Abiword always crashes abnormally. I could not try koffice yet. I use
> kile for latex.

I use lyx for all my document processing needs. It is based on Latex
but works in WYSIWYG mode. Exceptional for writing papers which I
guess should appeal to professors and students alike. I have not found
any other document processor which comes even close.



> Origin: this is a perfect data plotting tool. Non of excell like tools
> (gnumeric, ooo calc) can be used as an alternative to this tool. Maybe grace
> should be tried, but I could not find binaries for that. And could not find
> time to compile it. Any comment?
> 

I have been using xmgrace for several years. It does everything except
3-d plotting. It is easy yo use and easy to compile from the tarball.
For 3-d plotting I use gnuplot which of course does not have a nice
GUI but is very powerful.

Arko