[K12OSN] high-end desktop machine as a server?

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Bill Bardon wrote:

>On Sunday, Nov 07 Rob Owens wrote:
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>>Would you recommend Firefox instead of Mozilla?  What about a
>>lightweight alternative to OpenOffice?  Kwrite perhaps, for the simple
>>stuff?  I realize OpenOffice is a heavyweight, but I like it because
>>the kids can run it on their home computers, which will most likely be
>>Windows machines.
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>AbiWord is a good open source word processor that is available for both
>Linux and Windows. Not quite as MS-Ofiice-like as OpenOffice.
>
>Check out the Open CD project at http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/. Lots of
>open source software that runs on both Linux and Windows. You can burn
>these and send them home with all your students (and teachers!)
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>

I agree on both AbiWord and Gnumeric.  However, there are times when I 
need to work with a MS Word document that has images and other things in 
it, and though AbiWord is pretty good, it doesn't nail the MS Word 
compatibility as well as OO.o does.  Same for MS Excel spreadsheets.  
That's why I give my kids OO.o in addition to AbiWord and Gnumeric.  I 
find myself switching back and forth as needed on my own workstation; my 
defaults are AbiWord and Gnumeric, with the option to open the document 
in OO.o.

Remember that, once OO.o is loaded, it's cached, and it will act more 
quickly than the first time you load it.

--TP
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