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As an increasing number of companies and institutions migrate to Linux and OpenOffice.org, interoperability becomes more and more important. The world is still geared towards Microsoft’s document formats and that poses barriers to migration, one of which is fonts and their influence on how documents print and break into pages.

The leading Linux distributions in the enterprise space, Red Hat and SuSE delivered some new fonts that are metrically identical to the widely used Microsoft fonts. What does this mean for you? You can receive an MS Office document and use the equivalent font and print it w/o fear of it breaking into a different number of pages. It also means you do not need to update the table of content because of re-pagination. Off course the same is true in the opposite direction ODF –> MS Office document.

Use Plan-B for OpenOffice.org to learn more about how to configure Writer for optimal MS document compatibility.

As an increasing number of companies and institutions migrate to Linux and OpenOffice.org, interoperability becomes more and more important. The world is still geared towards Microsoft’s document formats and that poses barriers to migration, one of which is fonts and their influence on how documents print and break into pages.

The leading Linux distributions in the enterprise space, Red Hat and SuSE delivered some new fonts that are metrically identical to the widely used Microsoft fonts. What does this mean for you? You can receive an MS Office document and use the equivalent font and print it w/o fear of it breaking into a different number of pages. It also means you do not need to update the table of content because of re-pagination. Off course the same is true in the opposite direction ODF –> MS Office document.

Use Plan-B for OpenOffice.org to learn more about how to configure Writer for optimal MS document compatibility.

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Microsoft is coming out with a feature similar to this in Windows Vista. It's already available on the Linux platform.

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Windows has some built-in options for customizing the look and feel of the GUI environment, but Linux offers a lot more -- without you having to download additional tools.

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If you're running Windows, chances are you only have the default Windows desktop backgrounds. If you have an OEM edition of Windows, you may have gotten a few extra backgrounds tossed in, including some with the OEM logo.

Kubuntu has a way to change the desktop image, allowing you to specify that you want to use a file on your computer, on the Internet, or allows you to download and install from a specific website that's built in. The site offers hundreds of images and phots from around the world. The best thing is that it's all free, just like the operating system!

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A friend insists that Linux will not run on "computers made to run Windows," and insists with even more passion that laptops cannot run Linux, so I took shots of my screen (these are cropped to elminate the body keyboard and such) using a digital camera to show him the error of his thinking. Screenshots could be taken on "a computer designed to run Linux," he says, so this is his proof.