[TriLUG] Volunteers for N&O article

[Frye, Matthew]

Stan,
	I've spent a great deal of time "working out the kinks," as it were,
to try to rid my home of Windows.  I've had great success personally, but
there were minor compromises along the way.  I did fine replacing things
like Outlook, MS Money, MS Office, and other grown up software, but had less
success convincing my computer literate 5 year old, who points out that
there simply isn't enough educational or age-appropriate game software for
Linux to keep him occupied.  
	Regarding Pocket PC's, etc, I've only experimented with Palm
products since my work doesn't really call for it.  However, I am currently
doing some experimentation with the iPaq and Axim.  I will pass along any
findings.  

Regards,
Matt Frye

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> From: 	stan briggs[SMTP:stan at stanbriggs.com]
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> all,
> 
> i just recently joined this list so i may have missed the thread but
> have many TriLUGers done this and had real success? by 'real' success i
> mean not having 'too many' compromises when exchanging files and
> documents and getting 'most' of the equivalent applications.
> 
> i'm interested in both the staroffice and in the win4lin style
> solutions. a particular quirk in my interest is that i am a pocketpc
> user and do like having my data synchronized with the outlook client
> that i use.
> 
> thanks,
> stan
> 
> Stan B. Briggs
> www.StanBriggs.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:47 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group
> Subject: [TriLUG] Volunteers for N&O article
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> A reporter from the News and Observer has contacted the steering
> committee about an article they're doing about the growing interest in
> Linux, especially on the desktop.  The reporter is looking for someone
> who has switched from a Microsoft desktop to a Linux desktop within the
> past year and would be willing to be interviewed about it.  I get the
> feeling that the interest is in switching from Microsoft Office to an
> equivalent on Linux.
> 
> If you are interested, please contact me -directly-, not the list.  Oh,
> and it'll likely be a phone interview, and within the next day or two.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mike
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