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[Dane Mutters]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 13:12 +0530, shashank Agarwal wrote:
> hi 
> i am shashank from india ,, and ubuntu lover.
> i love this software..would you just try out to get latest yahoo
> messenger to work on ubuntu.and also Gtalk.and also try coping in wid
> the latest MS-office 2007 coz some of my applications aren,t workin in
> it..
> 
> also please provide a Graphical User Interface for configuring my DSL
> (pppoe) connection . it  took a lot of time understandin how to do
> that coz in other linux versions its very easy..
> we wud be highly obliged 
> 
> from
> shashank agarwal


Hi, Shashank.

For instant messaging, you should give Pidgin a try.  (Applications >
Internet > Pidgin.)  I'm not sure what to tell you about DSL/PPPoE; I
too would really like a GUI for that, but I'm not aware of such a thing.
For office productivity, you may want to give OpenOffice a shot
(Applications > Office > OpenOffice); I use it regularly, and I find it
to be very good.  It can read and write to MS-Office 2007 documents.
You can even have it save as .doc/.xls/.ppt documents by default.  I
think you'll find that there is a free/open source solution for almost
every type of software, and Ubuntu does a very good job of making them
accessible to the average user.

One last note: It's not very safe to post your address or phone number
anywhere on the Internet, even in a forum like this.  While I think all
the people here are good folks, we're not the only ones who read this
mailing list.

Moderators: any chance you can remove his personal information from the
mailing list?  It would be a shame for it to be abused.

Have a good one.

--Dane