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.

-- 
Robin Laing




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