[LUAU] SuSE Demo

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

In the next week or so, we will be installing a Novell SuSE (10.0) 
desktop demo at the Hawaii State Bar Association (1132 Bishop, Suite 
906).  This system will include a slightly customized OpenOffice.org 
2.0, and a VMWare player with a WinXP Pro image (along with WordPerfect 
and Microsoft Office) on a 2.5" USB disc.   The ultimate goal, of 
course, is to be able to completely do away with the need for Windows apps.

At the outset (and as an exercise), we will try to put together a set of 
OOo templates for attorneys or per se litigants to access the federal 
district court (such as writing pleadings, motions, requests for 
production/admission, interrogatories, etc.) without having to pay the 
Microsoft tax.  However, the initial goal is not to advocate a Linux 
based system, but to collect user experiences--to see, hopefully on a 
broad basis, what kind of problems/complaints/dislikes that a potential 
Linux user may have (& will turn him/her away).  I am quite confident 
that we should be able to solve most if no all of these problems, but 
first we have to know what they are.  Again, the key focus is to 
establish a process for collecting and compiling user experiences.

I will be attending Ron's Asterisk seminar (sans pizza) on Tuesday 
02/21.  If you are interested in helping out, we can chat after the 
talk.  For those in my little OpenSuSE/OpenSolaris/OpenOffice study 
group, this will be our first project.  Mahalo.  Wayne