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Re: [SLUG] Apps in a browser


From your description it sounds like you might want to run Star Office
as X session (instead of calling a WM) as a client(if your central 
server can hack it).

What are the apps you expect them to be running?

Thus spake Ben Donohue (donohueb@xxxxxxxxxxxx):

> Hi Slugs,
> A small organisation I do some charity work for has asked about moving
> entirely off windows and onto Linux.
> Not a problem to help them there.
> What I was thinking was that they have low end computers and I was
> thinking along the lines of thin clients, then browsers, then apps
> through a browser.
> So heres the question.
> Is there a way to setup a linux workstation with just a browser and have
> all the apps appear in the browser?
> As in word processing, spreadsheet, database, etc.
> First is it possible?
> Second would it work on low end pentiums?
> Anyone have any experience along these lines or is it a dumb idea and
> i'll just stick staroffice or koffice or whatever on them?
> Ben

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Cheers,
      Craige,

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