> If you want to use proprietory apps like MS Office 2007, why should you switch to Ubuntu? It is pointless. There is an open office suite in Linux. Name: Openoffice. Much greater app than MS Office.
> Heard that Googletalk has an alternative in Linux. Name: Empathy. I don't know much about it. Note: Google itself provide some apps for their own products such as Chrome, Picasa, googleearth etc. > When you install Ubuntu (as desktop), it may have a free Adobe reader already. On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Deepu Joseph <[email protected]>wrote: > Adobe Reader has a native linux version too, but I do not think it is free > software. I've found Okular/evince's rendering engine to be poor and buggy. > See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW5fdmy_pTo Anybody know a fix for > this? > > Deepu > > > On 27 June 2010 09:59, Anish A <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You could use openoffice.org . It supports all the Microsoft formats >> and it supports open standards much more than Microsoft Office. >> >> Adobe Reader : Okular >> Gtalk : Empathy >> >> >> >> On 6/27/10, melvin varghese <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm Melvin from Kakkanad. >> > I'm using ubuntu 9.04 and fedora 13, since ubuntu 10.04 does not support >> my >> > intel 845GL (64MB) video card. (Windows 7 doesn't support it either). >> > >> > I've installed WINE and gone through it's settings, but it seems to have >> a >> > lot of bugs while actually running windows apps :-( >> > MS Office 2007, Google talk, Adobe reader etc. won't work. >> > Looks like i've to tweak a few DLL override settings to get MS office >> 2007 >> > to work, but the other apps don't even display properly? >> > Looks like WINE is presently bugged. >> > Any ways to get apps to work properly? >> > Linux equivalents for Adobe reader and Google talk seem to be fine, >> though. >> > >> > Greetings, >> > Melvin (B.Tech. Biotech, presently doing MCSE, RHCE and CCNA.) >> > >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Anish A >> >> http://identi.ca/aneeshnl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List >> http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ >> http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >> #[email protected] >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > -- go -> www.debianway.co.cc
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