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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Subscriptions wrote: >> I think it would be good to have a proper stall selling stuff (or a >> number of them) but, demonstrate the products using Linux rather than >> Windows. I am not sure it matters which flavour of Linux - personally, I >> prefer Mandriva as it is the least painless to install and everything >> just worked immediately. However, there are many different ones that >> have their merits. >> >> Viv >> > Actually demonstrating the software on Windows and even a Mac would be a > good idea. I have found in the past that once users are used to Open > Source apps in Windows (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird etc) then they > make the transition to Linux easier. > > Rob > If this can be backed up with being able to give cd's away, or similar, then that would help greatly, i have some info on odf, so at least some of the literature from the odf alliance can show that this is a proper, international standard file format People should be show that it can both read / write to Ms formats though, as one of the many myths is probably soemthing that it won't read MS files, which is rubbish but its upto US to demonstrate otherwise. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : March 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmS84sACgkQaggq1k2FJq2lIgCfTum2vhtTP18oC1h8r+GMFSEM BG0AnicmcHulaxD+bodtfKfGjm3BzLH/ =urAL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html