Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/05/11 14:35, yamazakir2 wrote:
> Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA?

Both.  Email is via Mozilla thunderbird, which seems to handle cross platform
things well.   I still don't have a player for .wmv video working though.

Using Firefox with the latest flash plugin gives you youtube and vimeo movie
formats, and sound is working more ways with less hangups
and with less configuring than several years ago.

Open office is working well enough to communicate with a few windows users
without too much loss.

If you needed to communicate quickly with a team of windows users, it might pay to
use a vmware windows install on linux to access documents quickly without changing
them any so they can be used for updates.

I was liking a few KDE apps, like kword, but KDE got so invasive and took up so much
disk space, I stopped using it.  My linux install, with lots of engineering project data
takes up close to 17GB, and I have stacks of cheap 20GB 80pin SCSI drives I back up to,
so I don't want to let it expand any further for a couple of years...  then maybe backups on
servers will be the thing to do.


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