Linux for Senior Citizens 28 March 2007 at 5:41PM in Over 50s Money Saving 17 replies 1.8K views

studentphil

Trouble with linux is ASDL modems often don't work with it and ISP software won't run on it, therefore, it is a bit unless if you can not connect to the net.

studentphil

You can get open office for Windows now (plus there are other word processing packages open source for windows now).

http://media-convert.com/

Using this site it is no trouble to convert Open office to Word( for small documents anyway as large ones take ages to transfer).

irnbru_2

Savvy_Sue wrote:

Apparently that's Canon's fault, not Linux's.

What's the model number of the printer?

Need_More_Money_2

studentphil wrote: »

Trouble with linux is ASDL modems often don't work with it and ISP software won't run on it, therefore, it is a bit unless if you can not connect to the net.

If it's a router then it will work with Linux - you just need standard networking protocols to comunicate between the computer and the router. UNIX was doing this long before windows did

Need_More_Money_2

studentphil wrote: »

You can get open office for Windows now (plus there are other word processing packages open source for windows now).

http://media-convert.com/

Using this site it is no trouble to convert Open office to Word( for small documents anyway as large ones take ages to transfer).

Open office will open MS Office files directly and it can save in MS Office format too

Savvy_Sue

irnbru wrote: »

What's the model number of the printer?

It's a Smartbase MPC400 ... although we might be about to replace with with an HP we got off Freecycle! Just waiting for the powerlead we need to arrive from Ebay ...

D.K.

Lots of Ubuntu and Linux on Techie Stuff.
I know because I've had problems with Virtual Machine and Dual Boot....but I'm daft