Raptor Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 (edited) Alright ive heard of staroffice and openoffice for office suites! i have alot of files from microsoft word and excel and stuff like that...will those files work with either of those or is there a different program that i need....also for linux things what the equvialent to a .zip or .rar in linux? and .exe for windows whats the equivalent for that in linux*yes im a noob at linux oh well* and for music ive read xmms is popular any suggestions on that?*this is for gentoo Edited September 28, 2004 by Raptor Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 Openoffice rocks...it can read and write MS office files just fine. Not only can it read MS office files, it can create them as well, which rocks. The linux "form" of a zip file is a tar file, and it will usually come in the form: Filename.tar.bz2 or something along those lines. To extract them, open up the terminal and type "tar [location directory] [target directory]." So if you have a file called file.tar.bz2 in your root, and you want to extract it to your /usr directory, you would type "tar /file.tar.bz2 /usr." That should be right...somebody correct me if I'm wrong. BTW, if you're a linux noob, how did you get gentoo running? You should probably run Mandrake or Fedora first (I prefer mandrake) if you really are that unfamiliar with linux. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 OpenOffice.org will open MS Office files... infact, I use OpenOffice on windows! Zip and Rar can be opened in Linux.. there is also tgz, gzip, and a ton of other files... XMMS is great for media... also mplayer... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchuwato Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 open office - the way microsoft meant it to be written (yeah, i no, that's crap) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 openoffice takes a long long time to compile and last time I tried it; it was crash crazy.. that was like... beta though, it's probably alright now (installing it now, if you hadn't guessed) *just noticed this post is totally irrelevant?* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 Heh, openoffice is NOTHING compared to Gentoo in terms of compile times. Gentoo really does fly on an A64 though...it's insane how fast 64-bit gentoo compiled on my box. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor Posted September 29, 2004 Posted September 29, 2004 Eva_Unit_0 to answer your question i did concider mandrake *like in another post i posted about witch linux* but one of my friends is helping me do this* on phone lol* but he said if i wanted to learn linux inside and out and really get to know the commands to start with gentoo* what he did* and i just did stage 3 :/ *its on virtual pc right now* i just did emerge sync and waiting for that to update! im using the guide on gentoo's site but thanks for all the replys i was reading in another forum that xmms was buggy that true? and so basicaly openoffice is the best...so ill use that unless you say i should use something else! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarkhalar Posted September 29, 2004 Posted September 29, 2004 (edited) Staroffice I've never used, but heard it's good. KOffice is great for people who use KDE. It can read/write MS word docs as well, just fine. OpenOffice is my prefered, and I have no issues with it whatsoever on either of the two machines. Some uncompression methods: unzip [file] unrar x [file] tar -jxvf [file] (Uncompresses .tar.bz2) tar -zxvf [file] (Uncompresses .tar.gz, .tgz) tar -xvf [file] (Uncompresses .tar) bunzip2 [file] (Uncompesses .bz2 files) gunzip [file] (Uncompesses .gz files) .exe Files, I don't know if this was answered or not, but they are just executable files in linux. They are either compiled executables, or script executables. Most executables just have no file type Media Recommendations: Music: XMMS Video: mplayer Edited September 29, 2004 by Zarkhalar Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted September 29, 2004 Posted September 29, 2004 Heh, openoffice is NOTHING compared to Gentoo in terms of compile times. Gentoo really does fly on an A64 though...it's insane how fast 64-bit gentoo compiled on my box. Really? How long does Gentoo take to compile? Are we talking just base system here? OpenOffice compile actually failed but I didn't bother to check why. Oh well.. Oh aaaaaand... you can try and execute anything with the executable bit set (mrboo|laptop)/home/mrboo$ chmod 755 desktop.jpg (mrboo|laptop)/home/mrboo$ ./desktop.jpg zsh: exec format error: ./desktop.jpg (mrboo|laptop)/home/mrboo$ wow-ee huh? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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