Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 575
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:02:01 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Sunday 23 March 2003
 Number  575
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Subjects for today
 
1  [os2genau] Dress to Impress ! : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>

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Date:  Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:15:49 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  [os2genau] Dress to Impress !

As a small survey of what people on the list think, what would you put
into a build of an OS/2 workstation to be used in a SOHO or SMB
environment (ie up to 500 installations) ?

Here's my suggestions based on software that I rely on and quite like
the look of:

Base OS:

  OS/2 Warp 4 CP2 FP3 - or possibly eCS 1.1 when released. (C)

WPS Enhancers:
  Pop3Spy and Sit-O-Chariri - check for incoming mail. (S)
  X-File (S)
  NPS WPS Enhancer (F)

OS additions:
  All latest Dani Drivers. (F)
  ODIN (F)
  EMX libraries (F)

Internet programs:
  Browser: Mozilla v 1.3 GA (F)
  E-Mail:   PolarBar (F)
  ICQ:        PWICQ (S)

System Utilities:
  Zip/Unzip (F)
  WarpZip frontend to zip/unzip (S)
  Java version of Acrobat reader (handles later formats that OS2 native
version) (F)
  GhostScript also for older Acrobat PDF files. (F)
  PMDSKCOPY (S)
  SYSINFO from Alexey  S Smirnov (F)

Cross-Platform support:
  ODIN (F)
  EMX Libraries (F)
  Virtual PC/2 v 5.1 (C)

Office Applications:
  Star Office v 5.2. (F)
  Lotus Smartsuite for Warp 4 v 1.7.1 (C)

Multimedia DVD etc:
   WarpVision Gui latest build (F)
   Real Player v 8 (under ODIN) (F)

CD Burning/copying:
  CDRecord/2 with CD-Creator 1:1 CDCopy frontends (F)
  C-Side to create labels (S)
  Tonigy to see audio and video tracks as datafiles (S)

Scanning:
  SANE/2 with TAME frontend. (F)

Graphics display/editing:
  PMView 2000 (C)
  Photo Tiger 2000 (S)

Key:

(C) Commercial software - must be purchased

(S) Shareware software - small registration fee required.

(F) Freeware.

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