[ale] GNOME Journal article: The Liberal Arts Major Test/Excel recommendation

[Mark Wright]

This was on /. recently.  The article on News Forge was very positive.   
It is not cheap but I would buy it if I needed those power user  
features that those power user types I used to work with thought were  
important.

http://www.softmaker.de/pml_en.htm

http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/24/167224.shtml? 
tid=82&tid=93

Mark,



On Jan 14, 2005, at 5:24 AM, aaron wrote:

>
> Good link and article. Thanks for noting it.
>
> From experiences setting up my daughter with Mandrake, I think the  
> "average"
> high school and early college students are our best target demographic  
> for
> switching to Linux.  At that stage of growing we are all more open  
> minded,
> receptive to change and more likely to appreciate the advantages in  
> system
> control, customization and flexibility that Linux offers. The main  
> hard to
> switch exceptions are specialty app fans like hard core computer  
> gamers who
> demand the latest releases and drivers for the bleeding edge hardware.
>
> After her first semester at college, my daughter is still very happy  
> with her
> Mandrake box and the Linux / OSS apps, and is accepting of the fact
> that her sometimes her system won't  support the same things that the  
> latest
> Main$tream, commercial supported systems do.
>
> Her biggest complaint is not finding a spread sheet as complete and  
> well
> designed as M$ ex-hell.  She uses Open Office for other apps, but is  
> not
> happy with the spread sheet area.
>
> Anyone know of Linux based Spread Sheet alternatives that honestly  
> meet or
> surpass the M$ ex-hell offering?
>
> peace
> aaron
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:57, Barry Hawkins wrote:
>> Not sure how many keep up with GNOME Journal, but this was an
>> interesting piece that made it to Slashdot:
>>
>> The Liberal Arts Major Test
>> http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/13/the-liberal-arts-major-test
>>
>> This guy apparently installed Debian sid on a scrapper of an x86 PC  
>> and
>> showed his friend the basics and left her to it - 2 years ago.  The
>> title plays off of those Grandmother Tests that kept popping up when
>> Linux on the desktop first became a hot topic.
>>
>> --
>> Barry Hawkins
>> All Things Computed
>> site: www.alltc.com
>> weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
>>
>> Registered Linux User #368650
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