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On Thursday 07 December 2006 13:12, Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:36:05PM +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > > I'm a member of a thing called DASH - the Devon Association of > > Smallholders and toying with the idea of a small article for their > > website/monthly magazine about FLOSS and its possible applications to > > smallholders. There are 1000+ memberships so mentioning dclug as a > > possible source of help could cause a few problems - though I doubt > > 10% will be interested. What do people think? And do any of you have > > suggestions as to packages that might be helpful? > > I would go for simple wins: packages that will definitely work, will be > cheaper and IMHO better eg I was thinking that these people will be IT virgins and as such deserver to be treated to secondhand pcs with the Linux accelerator package on them > > - Openoffice (with the default save as *doc, *xls etc) instead of MS > Office > - Thunderbird instead of outlook express. Most friends like the > improved rules handling, and spam blocking > - PDF creator instead of Adobe > > ie packages that are opensource, work well and are obviously cost > effective. (http://www.theopencd.org/ for more options) For those that > want to know more then point them at > - Ubuntu / Knoppix and the live CDs > - Linux distro choice > > I still feel that "linux" is seen as difficult and geeky and so playing > that down is an advantage I don't see much point in allowing this kind of FUD to play a part in this! > > > -- > Henry > Thu Dec 7 13:12:19 GMT 2006 -- 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