Linux Desktop for university staff

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:08:40AM -0600, Arkajyoti Misra wrote:
> > 
> > Office: Openoffice.org. Write and calc are perfect alternatives to word and
> > excel. Abiword always crashes abnormally. I could not try koffice yet. I use
> > kile for latex.
> 
> I use lyx for all my document processing needs. It is based on Latex
> but works in WYSIWYG mode. Exceptional for writing papers which I
> guess should appeal to professors and students alike. I have not found
> any other document processor which comes even close.
> 
> 
> 
> > Origin: this is a perfect data plotting tool. Non of excell like tools
> > (gnumeric, ooo calc) can be used as an alternative to this tool. Maybe grace
> > should be tried, but I could not find binaries for that. And could not find
> > time to compile it. Any comment?
> > 
> 
> I have been using xmgrace for several years. It does everything except
> 3-d plotting. It is easy yo use and easy to compile from the tarball.
> For 3-d plotting I use gnuplot which of course does not have a nice
> GUI but is very powerful.
> 
> Arko
For plotting I find gnuplot that comes with fedora pretty good for
data plotting in 2 and 3-dimensions.
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