[TriLUG] New user seeking advice\help

[John Mitchell]

On 1/24/06, argotera <argotera at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Hi All:)
>
>    I want to switch from windows to Linux, the two things i use most  are word and excel especially excel

   The OpenOffice.org package ( http://www.openoffice.org/ ) has Excel
and Word equilivents. There are several other spreadsheet programs
such as Gnumeric:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnumeric/gnumeric.html
   Please note that some MS features may be not 100% the same.


> please recommend which linux  distribution would be >best suited . I use an IBM T43.

   For trying out Linux, I am a big fan of the "Live CD's, which boot
from a CD and run in your ram (without touching your hard drive).
These are available in most "flavors" of Linux and allow you to 'see'
several different types in a short time.
    Having said that, I am using Ubuntu for my desktop.

john mitchell