Sir,

I need to display a splash screen while booting the puppy linux. After finishing booting automatically a screen would display on desktop(autorun). If possible give solution as soon as possible.

Thanks and regards,
K.Siva Sankar.

Millions want a fast, complete office sytem.

Linux still doesn’t supply it.

So which distro do I use for fast boot, fast program launching, with a complete, fast launching word processor with Arial and Times Roman fonts? And how many hours will I waste building it?

Evey linux I’ve chosen runs like a dog, takes years to set up, and works only partially because you can never find and install all the bits.

Open Office runs like a dog too, so please don’t recommend that.

Most of us work in offices, and linux still doesn’t cater for that.

Unix failed to become the standard for the same reason. Launched in 1969, if it had a fully configured word processor as part of every install Microsoft would never have got off the ground, and the world been spared the ghastly scourge of Windows.

But history repeats itself. Every mistake has to be made again and again.

And idiot Linux developers copy every Microsoft mistake, building in massive size, vast complexity, so many features they get in the way of productivity, mind bogglingly slow performance on stunningly quick hardware.

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Ubuntu is quite easy to configure. takes at most half a day - a day. You can use the manuals, so it is quite easy.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty

I don’t know if it is the fastest one, but it runs great on my laptop although it is not the newest one.

for office you can use:

gnome-office: runs fast but does not feature everything
open-office: the last ones are more stable
koffice: don’t know much about that because i use gnome.
ms office: you can run the ms office suite using crossover. Runs great on my computer.

Developping software isn’t an easy job. Quite amazing how all those things can work. People wants to use the standards of microsoft so its quite logic that linux programmers have to copy some features of microsoft and its quite difficult to get rid of the faults made in the early design.

does anyone know an equivalent open source software in linux for the following?
1. a video/audio editor
2. something like World Construction Set or Animatek World Builder(for liux of course), but i can sacrifice a lil quality for responsiveness. its like running mental ray in maya

1. a video/audio editor

Video:
- Cinelerra, Kino — more advanced, harder to use
- Diva — a simpler one, more intuitive

Audio:
- Audacity
- Kwave (for KDE)
- rosegarden (midi)

Maya is Linux native so is XSi

Message for Mr. David: I found distro which should suits you. Small (about 200 Mb)and fast with KOffice, stable (like every Linux) and secure. It`s Nimblex. Live CD which I installed on my computer.

I have the same problem when I start migrate to linux :
Not So Fast Office loading.

I use openoffice, so in my spare time, my goal
is to make (if not all) program loading fast in linux.
It’s not till 1 minute i found program : prelaunch.
It makes my office loading in a blink! try this..

David, how fast is fast? I don’t believe there are any computing solutions that supply instant or complete gratification. If you use KDE or Gnome you will have some overhead. I use Xubuntu, it has the Xfce desktop. It is lean and mean and pretty snappy, even with openoffice. You might try assigning various programs to open at startup on one or more of the virtual desktops. That way you can just choose the desktop with the program already up and running. Sounds like a workflow problem rather than a program response problem (my two cents). Also seems you just expect Linux to be a better MS Windows, (not going to happen).

Evey linux I’ve chosen runs like a dog, takes years to set up, and works only partially because you can never find and install all the bits.

Most of us work in offices, and linux still doesn’t cater for that.

Linux take me less than half the time it takes to set up a comparable Windows system, about 20 minutes and there’s a fully usable system. Another hour and there are all the extras installed plus the updates.

Our Postmater uses Linux to do all her accounts, and all of her correspondence (using Open Office.org). I use Linux with Open Office.org every day, I really can’t see what you mean by dog, except the first time it’s loaded it’s loads quickly and is highly responsive during use.

I think you speak with no real knowledge of what you pretend to know.

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I want to migrate from MS Windows to LINUX. However. I’m lost at which LINUX Distributions I will use. Don’t even know what KDE & GNOME means & how they differ & what is Xfce? I have around 12 computers that I plan to migrate but will try one. Then if everything’s ok will do the rest.

@johnsiesta:
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AMAROK: a player to play mostly common format songs
K3B: Burner like Nero in windows
KAFFEİNE: Advanced player to play songs
KOLOUR PAINT: Paint software like paint in windows.Much better than windows one.
FİREFOX: Browser like IE.Best one than IE.
K GET: Download manager
KONQUEROR: Browser for internet
KOPETE: Messenger for mostly used messengers like MSN OR YAHOO OR AIM etc…
OPEN OFFİCE: Office suite like MS office
G PARTED: Partition manager to make partitions in your hard drive

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What’s slow about open office? i just timed mine to open write from scratch (with gimp, amsn, and firefox with multiple tabs open also running) at 9sec… thats around 1/4 what M$ word manages to load in. for additional info, i’m using kde 4.1 on a 2.4GHz dual core amd processor, 2Gb of DDR2 800, Arch linux installed and fully configured (took all of a few hours from scratch.. and its supposedly one of the more intensive setups).

Maybe it seems to take forever to configure for people new to linux, but the majority of the time this is because they are new and don’t know what to do, they already know windows, so they can “configure” (in the small ay that’s possible) that more quickly. They then make the mistake of thinking windows is easier to configure. I use both windows and linux, windows out of necessity for solidworks and matlab/labview. But windows installs take me much longer. After installing, i then have to trawl the internet for anti virus and firewalls, then drivers, then hunt through cds for programs, then with everything installed it runs like a dog, I run open office on there because M$ office runs like a dog (and why pay for a slower office suite?). Then i go through services, delete the extra unnecessary ones, get rid of as much of the excess bloat as i can… then i go to bed because te night is gone.

Wow, strong words here. Personally, I haven’t used office on my Linux box but… I use both windows and Linux. I live both for different reasons. I host my application and software as service on Linux/Unix systems because of security and light weight. I develop and do my day to day work of windows because i has more vendors for the tools i need. Now, as much as i am for free OS and software, I just seem to believe that when we go out to eat, we don’t ask the cook to give us free food, or the dentist to provide us with free service. Why? because we all need to put bread on the table. So as i love free, it comes with a cost. People who work for free will do it in their own time, at their own pace and anyway they want it. Its free. That is the plague of the open source community. If MS Office suite cost $50 and XP cost $50. Do you think we will be having this conversation. No!! People are looking for alternative (linux/Unix) because MS has monopoly on price but please, not free. That’s why I think Ubuntu and SUSE will emerge as “valuable” competition. Because they charge for something ($50 or so for the CD with software distribution or something like that) so they get to pay their developers. Nothing should be free, but it should be affordable and cheap if necessary. So as much as I love Linux, I only see mass Ubuntu and SUSE ending up in office desks (some day) competing with MS. Besides that, the rest will be for the geeks like you and me, getting off every time we type 10 commands to do one thing because we understand the complexity and its cool that we know how to do it. But guess what, the office user doesn’t care about my 10 commands, they care about the one click away. That’s why I leave our computer with Linux and come back( with my wife working out) with MS windows on.