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[dmeyer]

dmeyer:

Interesting. I don't see a spreadsheet / database module, however. Is it capable of that as well?

I may give it a try just to round out my knowledge, but I have a lot invested in ODT now, and I don't feel a need to change just for the sake of changing.

Thanks for pointing it out to me, however. I knew of LaTeX, but not Lyx.

Frank.

No. It really is just designed for letters, publishing, technical documents etc. It isn't a spreadsheet application. Its target users are authors, academics, mathematicians, physicists and other technical fields. It does make absolutely gorgeous documents though and I did my 400+ page research thesis on it. Its great at working with massive documents and has best handling of floats, equations, diagrams, references etc. that I have ever seen in a program. I remember MS Word corrupted my document irrecoverably when it got 40 pages long, however, I only use MS Word as a grammar and spell checker so I didn't actually lose anything. Honestly, I can even go as far as to say that MS Word has the best referencing system around because you can do some interesting things with it.

P.S. I know some people make some fairly kickass slideshows with it but I've never tried that.

[Xplorer4x4]

In 1984-6, I was "locked in" to a Commodore 64. I don't even know what became of that computer -- it was replaced about 1987 with a Northgate MS-DOS box. I worked in a small business in the early 1990s that was "locked in" to Novell Netware for their LAN. I sold a medical office management system that ran on SCO Unix 386 in the early 1990s

Today's two cents' worth.

Gees, you really are as old as your avatar makes you look if you used a Comadore64! Those thing's are as old as the dinosaurs!

Sorry I know you don't know me that well, ok at all really, but I couldn't resist the joke. I remember the fist computer I ever used was a Comadore 64. I jumped right in not scared to try new things and here I am today, a linux geek!

[dmeyer]

Gees, you really are as old as your avatar makes you look if you used a Comadore64! Those thing's are as old as the dinosaurs!

Sorry I know you don't know me that well, ok at all really, but I couldn't resist the joke. I remember the fist computer I ever used was a Comadore 64. I jumped right in not scared to try new things and here I am today, a linux geek!

My first PC was a P2 when I was 5. I remember everybody telling my parents that they were crazy for spending so much money on a computer for a 5 year old. If I look st where I'm now, I guess my parents got it right.

Now back to the topic, although people who used Commodore 64 should be given preferential seats in buses due to their extreme age, they are still the generation which built up the basis which we rely so heavily on nowadays.

[SteveRiley]

people who used Commodore 64 should be given preferential seats in buses due to their extreme age

s/age/coolness/

There. Fixed that for you.

[jlittle]

... although people who used Commodore 64 should be given preferential seats in buses due to their extreme age...

Go on, I'm not that old, and I date from the Commodore PET. (pos, only played games on it myself, but my firm had a team that did software for them.)

Regards, John Little