Ten years of Fedora [LWN.net]

Ten years of Fedora

Posted Sep 24, 2013 3:26 UTC (Tue) by Neowin (guest, #93001)
In reply to: Ten years of Fedora by hummassa
Parent article: Ten years of Fedora

> We still have some 300+ Windows98/only hardware and 1000+ Office97 licenses. You have to work with what you have.

Don't you know http://www.openoffice.org/
Also http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/

> Have you ever tried it? We did. It's not pretty, nor is it usable by our regular users.

It is perfectly usable for me.
After downloading Firefox from its built-in IE6, it works like a charm.

> Yeah, you install libc5:i386 and you can run a xv binary compiled c. 1995.

Show something else? For example an valuable software like Office97.

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Ten years of Fedora

Posted Sep 24, 2013 7:51 UTC (Tue) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

I use Microsoft Office at work. Normal upgrades regularly break things. Resulting in requiring a reinstall of Microsoft Office until eventually it breaks again. I am not talking about my pc, it is multiple pcs in various locations. This on Windows XP.

Ten years of Fedora

Posted Sep 24, 2013 10:05 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

> It is perfectly usable for me.

Congrats! You are probably a smart user. I have 100+ users (in an universe of almost 4000) that had to use the thing and none of them could touch it.