New Linux newbie

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hello all,

A friend of a friend is very keen on investigating Linux, but a bit unsure
about the applications available.  Can anyone suggest replacements for the
packages he currently uses with Windows?  After StarOffice and The GIMP, I don't
really use anything else, and being an extreme newbie, I don't want to recommend
things to him that I have no idea about. 

> At the present time I have Microsoft Office & Publisher, AutocadLT & two
> other DOS CAD programs, {can you run DOS programs in Linux?}.  I have a SCSI
> CD ROM writer which uses Adaptatec Easy CD & Easy CD3, I have a flatbed
> scanner which uses Ulead & Wordlinks ocr, a nationwide banking program,
> Netscape a Bitware fax program.  I also have Corel draw3 and Wordperfect6.

I suppose I could just recommend Mandrake 7.0, or the forthcoming SuSE
6.4 to him and be done wth it, but would that be best?

Thanks a lot.  Let's welcome another brother to the fold...  sounds kind of
creepy doesn't it?

Harvey
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