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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:08:41 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Folks,

> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:55:28 +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:

>> Can BasicLinux be made to read PowerPoint (.PPS) files?

> It all depends.

> I have a distro that started out as BL2.  To that I have added a lot
> of stuff, particularly libraries, and finally Open Office.

I saw Open Office included as part of a distro of Linux... now if I
could only remember where.

> THAT can read PowerPoint stuff.  But it took a lot to get it to this
> point, so it is no longer the lean, mean Linux that BasicLinux is.

I have been thinking of devoting half of the 8Gb HDD on the Windoze
computer to a large installation of Linux, so that wouldn't be a great
problem.



Greg