[Nelug] Introduction

[Stephen Patterson]

On 20 Aug 03, Andrew Hatch (andrew.hatch at bluespace.com) wrote:
> I've now switched to Debian for my desktop (dual boot to Win2k)(as its
> non-commercial) and has a great package management system!  I'm
> impressed with Gnome/Sawfish, and I also use Wine to run Word, Excel and
> Powerpoint ('97 version) in order to edit/view documents from work. 

Welcome fellow debianite.
Have you considered using OpenOffice instead of M$ Office? Just add
this to /etc/apt/sources.list and you can install it.

deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ sarge main contrib

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