<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/27/2013 02:28 PM, Ernest Doub wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CABGXaR48-Lh-z_9nPtaJxzP3XZmw47uN3HEomiTAPG82cSArSQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Douglas Pollard <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dougpol1@verizon.net" target="_blank">dougpol1@verizon.net</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi All, My Daughter has a Dell laptop about 5 years old. It has been a nice machine. She bought it used and it was slow as death. It had xp on it and she took it to a shop and they installed windows 7 and either added a memory stick or replaced the old on with no difference in speed. I sent her an Xubuntu live disk for her to try linux with the thought that if it ran at a reasonable speed I would consider the problem is in windows. She wasn't able to get it to run as she probably needed to press the F12 key to run off her dvd drive or somethin. She is comming here this weekend so I thought i'd try to get the devd to run Xubuntu. Also I would like to get her hooked on Linux. Will running Linux off a DVD tell me anything about the condition of the hard ware or soft ware. She needs Microsift office for her work. I guess i could install it as a virtual program in xubuntu couldn't I?? Any suggestions here would be appreciated. She as talked about buy another machine but money is tight for her in this economy so I am trying to help. I may be all wet with this but figured it might be worth a try and couldn't hurt anything. Doug appreciated. Doug Pollard, Sailor, Machinst, writer,artist Visit me at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://sailboatsfairandfine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://sailboatsfairandfine.blogspot.com/</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=0sujnvIV4g4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=0sujnvIV4g4</a> </blockquote> <div> What component of Micro$oft Office is she chained to and why won't Open Office work? Has she ever tried Open Office? The work can be saved in most Micro$soft compatible formats. Ed On the Mojave </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> She has never used Open Office and is convinced that no one useing windows will be able to open any files she sends them. I will try to convince her other wise this weekend if running off the Xubuntu Dvd works I have a feeling that she is running everything on the hard drive and not seeing or using her memory at all so it is very slow. She just called and told me the computer shuts down after a while. Doug <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Doug Pollard, Sailor, Machinst, writer,artist Visit me at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sailboatsfairandfine.blogspot.com/">http://sailboatsfairandfine.blogspot.com/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=0sujnvIV4g4">http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=0sujnvIV4g4</a></pre> </body> </html>