I've used both in the past. If you just need basic documents and simple spreadsheets they work very well. In a previous job I had 40-50 Linux data entry kiosks on the production floors. They each has a Gnumeric spreadsheet that had a number of common functions that the printing press operators used. Before the Linux kiosks they were using Windows and Excel/Word with software licenses of dubious origin. Linux replaced Windows and AbiWord and Gnumeric replaced Word and Excel. Worked beautifully for at least 7 years. Over time the Linux kiosks started getting replaced with Windows kiosks as the hardware turnover solved the licensing issues for us. Office staff got the new computers and their old computers got reconfigured for the data entry/web app access kiosks. My job responsiblities had expanded significantly over the 7 years since the implementation. Updating the configuration to use a modern Linux distribution (mostly for hardware support) was going to take too much of my time compared to pushing the task off to the junior level Windows admins, who were also too swamped to learn Linux. Side effects of running lean on your IT staff...little if any training and development time. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120127/2d298e8a/attachment.html>