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Can I use my Microsoft Office documents, JPEG photos, MP3 music files, MPEG2 videos etc. on Linux?

Written by Garfield Lucas

Yes! Many of the packages you have to install and pay for separately with Microsoft Windows come bundled with Linux for free. And if your particular choice of Linux doesn’t include the software you need, then almost everything you want can be downloaded for free, either directly from the software repository associated with your Linux distribution, or from: http://sourceforge.net/ & ftp://mirror.ac.uk/sites/

Most Linux distributions ship with media players such as XMMS: http://www.xmms.org/about.php
And a video player such as Xine: http://xinehq.de/
Most Linux distributions have a built-in graphics viewer. They also ship with Gimp. This rivals the expensive Adobe Photoshop both in terms of power & functionality: http://www.gimp.org/
Most Linux distributions now ship with an excellent open source office suite called OpenOffice.org. This opens & saves MS Word, MS Excel & MS PowerPoint formats, as well as opening & saving it its own native, XML-based and EU-approved format. OpenOffice.org is available for Linux & Windows free from: http://www.openoffice.org/ and for Macintosh from: http://www.neooffice.org/

Last Updated on Thursday, 02 August 2007 19:50

What is Linux?

Written by Garfield Lucas
Linux is a (usually) free, open source version of the UNIX operating system, created originally in 1991 by a Finn, Linus Torvalds as a college project when he as studying at Helsinki University. It has developed a lot since then and can be used to replace Microsoft Windows completely. In some circumstances, an open source operating system such as Linux can perform much better than Windows, for example, on web servers. DEOSS runs on a Linux, not a Windows server. Whilst this decision was made partly due to cost, the main reason was robustness. More info about Linux: http://www.linux.org/
Last Updated on Saturday, 09 September 2006 20:13

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