[CS-FSLUG] Help Me Keep Outlook Out (of My Church's Office)

[Christopher Rose]

Let me take this one step further. I would suggest downloading and burning a copy of Slax and then give the entire office administration staff a demonstration of Linux's capabilities. Slax is a liveboot variant of Slackware and I must admit that it is quite impressive. Indeed, it may even be feasible to simply just use a network of computers that use only a liveboot of linux, thus making it so that the hard drive need only save important file and not the OS itself (you can not do that with windoze). This could conceivably save a few hundred dollars in the church's administration budget (another positive about Linux).

Just an idea.

In Christ,

Christopher


P.S. You can download Slax from: http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php

I used the 4.1.3 download link.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Eduardo Sanchez <lists at sombragris.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:18:26 -0400
To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Help Me Keep Outlook Out (of My Church's Office)

> On the pastor's computer story, that's surely not good. I think you 
> should simply try to convince the computer administrator to enforce a 
> ban of Microsoft software citing concerns with license auditing, 
> viruses, and several other related issues. And have everyone there 
> using it.
> 
> You even might propose a good standard GNU/Linux desktop. I would 
> propose mandrake, but it has become too clunky and buggy. Fedora and 
> Suse would be good, but their performance is really substandard, their 
> hardware requirements stiffer, and they have issues of their own.
> 
> What I would suggest is perhaps to use a customized Debian distro, or 
> Slackware (and btw, Part III of the Stealth Desktop series is on the 
> queue with some tips).
> 
> That standard GNU/Linux desktop could be offered in three flavors:
> 1. GNOME: for those choosing eye candy and industrial usability.
> 2. KDE: For those choosing eye candy, lots of features, great 
> customizability and apps.
> 3. IceWM: For those choosing raw speed with an easy to use interface.
> 
> What would you think?
> 
> About the whiners: There are going to be whiners. Remember the 
> journalist that used to write about GNU/Linux after installing RH 6.2, 
> finding it didn't work in this or that sort of way, and saying later 
> "Linux is dead" ? Same in this case.
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Eduardo
> 
> On Tuesday 17 August 2004 12:03, Timothy R.Butler wrote:
> > I tried moving one pastor's computer to GNU/Linux earlier this year -- 
> > he got jealous of those who had Windows XP and insisted switching 
> back. 
> > *sigh* Since he fussed about it, GNU/Linux now has a bad name in the 
> > church office.
> > 
> > I'm hoping to establish a non-Windows beachhead by getting our music 
> > director a new system one of these days. She is an avid Mac user, and 
> > I'm quite sure if she was toting around a snazzy little PowerBook, 
> > others might start to think maybe there are alternatives to Windows. 
> > :-)
> > 
> > 	-Tim
> > 
> > 
> > On Aug 17, 2004, at 6:42 AM, bondservant at thebondservant.org wrote:
> > 
> > > Even if they do switch to a full exchange server, it would be 
> possible 
> > > to use a more secure client with Evolution and Evolution connector 
> > > (this is the Gnome mail client).  Evolution connector is a plugin 
> that 
> > > allows Evolution to work with Exchange servers and use most of the 
> > > exchange server features.  Novell recently released it GPL where it 
> > > was not before.
> > > http://www.novell.com/products/connector/
> > >
> > > This of course requires a Linux computer but could be a good 
> argument 
> > > for Linux if someone's looking for one.  Most of the Echange server 
> > > functionality, with Novell expanding its compatibility with Exchange 
> > > servers in the Q3 2004 release of Evolution.
> > >
> > > As previously mentioned Susie's openexchange server is a very viable 
> > > alternative as well.   It allows interaction with Outlook clients.  
> > > Though using Outlook you still have security nightmare that it is.  
> It 
> > > of course works with Evolution as well.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Roettger
> > > www.thebondservant.org
> > > <mailto:bondservant at thebondservant.org>
> > >
> > >
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> > 
> 
> -- 
> Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
> Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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