Installing Windows after Redhat Linux is installed
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Apr 27 15:29:00 UTC 2005
William M. Quarles wrote:
> Marc M wrote:
>
>> The smartest way, is just to go ahead and load windows first, if you
>> really really really need it. Save some space on the hard drive, say
>> at least 10G would be nice. Then the redhat installer will play nice
>> with windoze.
>> Otherwise if you load linux first, windows tries to be a bully and
>> erase everything, still symptomatic of a 'everything is windows'
>> mentality that permeates a company with an address of One Microsoft
>> Way. Hopefully that will change in the future and the windows
>> installer will start living in the 21st century.
>> By the way there is nothing that windows can do that linux can't do,
>> you can download open office from the website openoffice.org
>> <http://openoffice.org>, and get a full featured office suite that is
>> top notch.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>
> Last time I checked OpenOffice was lacking a lot of useful features in
> the spreadsheet program that Excel has. I would hardly call the
> spreadsheet program "top notch."
>
What is missing? We use it at work in a scientific research capacity.
Heck some people have moved to OOo because it has features that MS
Office XP doesn't have and would require purchasing additional software.
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Robin Laing
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