First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Leon Goldstein]

Joel Hammer wrote:

> I am not sure what I am getting for my money, but on the upside:
> 1. I couldn't download gnucash with synaptic or get-apt, but it came in
> nicely with the warehouse.
> 2. Staroffice wasn't available with synaptic but it was with the warehouse.
> 3. When you install from the warehouse, you get a nice icon on  the
> desktop without any hassle.
>

There are lots of Gnucash deb's.  Take a look at www.debian.org.  Is
synaptic/apt-get configured for sources?
I'm not surprised you couldn't install StarOffice with synaptic, since
it is not a deb package.
I'm curious about the packaging of SO you downloaded from the
warehouse.  Was it a tar?

--
Leon A. Goldstein

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