[Ubuntu-SG] Ubuntu Users in Singapore

[Chew EK]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:43 AM, suhaw koh <kohsuhaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chew EK,
>
> 2008/8/6 Chew EK <chew4097 at gmail.com>
>
>> 1. I recently bought an Asus eeePC.  I already researched the eeePC's
>> Xandros OS, and have decided to replace it with Ubuntu.  But before
>> purchase, I wanted to see how knowledgeable the sales person was about
>> Linux.  It came as no surprise that I was disappointed about her lack of
>> knowledge.  In fact, while talking to the sales person, I noticed other
>> browsing customers were more interested in the Windows version.
>>
>
> Will you be replacing Xandros with eeebuntu ?  Do share your experience.
>

I replaced with standard Ubuntu.  It's running a bit slow, since standard
Ubuntu is not optimized or slimmed down.  But, I'm not sure if I want to try
again with eeebuntu; it took too much time to install.

You can read my install experience (plus various Ubuntu, Linux, engineering
journals), at: blog.chewearn.com




> 2. I recently tried to edit a document in OpenOffice.  It was an old MS
>> Word file, and I no longer have Windows and MSOffice installed in anything.
>> Importing the document into OO resulted in a mess.  In the end, I resorted
>> to re-typing the entire document in native OO format (odt file).  Then, I
>> hit on another problem.  I couldn't send the odt file to anyone else.  I
>> have to send a converted pdf instead.  But some of the recipients need a MS
>> doc file, so I save a doc copy and send that.  Unfortunately, opening the
>> doc in MSOffice showed some differences in formatting.  I have to borrow a
>> friend's PC, and after many trial and errors, I finally got the odt and doc
>> to be exactly the same.
>>
>
> Have you tried Abiword ?  OOo is good when you need the range of Office
> apps.  Abiword is more focussed on just the word processing module and does
> not offer the other office modules.  Personally, I use Abiword and Gnumeric
> which meets most of my needs, and power up OOo only when I need to read the
> occasional powerpoint.
>
> The other option is Google Docs.  That way, you can share your documents
> without the need to send large attachments everywhere.
>

That's for the suggestion on Abiword.  I only used OpenOffice occasionally,
so it's not a big deal; but I mentioned the experience to say that
unfortunately, in a world full of MSOffice, your needs might not be solved
by switching to OpenOffice because it's not 100% compatible.

Google Docs is nice, but I can tell you the average person/company I need to
send the document to would be clueless.



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>
>
>> 3. A while back, I started this social group in ubuntuforums: Kiasu
>> Ubuntu Users <http://ubuntuforums.org/group.php?groupid=167>.  Looking at
>> the posts, you can see I am mainly talking to myself over there, lol.
>>
>
> Okay, I have signed up there but not frequented it much.  Will try to do so
> more.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>
> suhaw
>


Thanks.

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