cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Hi all, We are trying to move over to Linux, we have got the clients built using Spacewalk (Spacewalk: Free & Open Source Linux Systems Management) and we can manage all the systems remotely.. However... a big stumbling block... Office! The way the machines are built means they auto login to a Firefox session that is in kiosk mode, this is mainly because everything we do is web based and this is the way the company wants to go... everything web based. We have been testing how it would work and it seems to be going well it's just the issue of using some sort of web based office suite. Does anyone know of a web based office suite OR a way in which I could run LibreOffice (or similar) in a web browser... OR at a push a terminal services version of Office on Linux. The version of Linux Im running is Fedora. Any Ideas welcome!! Thanks Chris.
mac_shinobi Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 @Geoff - Any suggestions / thoughts etc ?? 1
featured_spectre Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Google Docs? https://docs.google.com/document/ < Documents (Word Equivalent) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ < Spreadsheets (Excel Equivalent) https://docs.google.com/presentation/ < Presentation (Powerpoint Equivalent) Covers the basics at least 1
featured_spectre Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Also this should help make libre office in a web browser for you. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Using_LibreOffice_in_a_Web_Browser
cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 Google Apps would be great.. is it free and how would users use it... Would they need to create a google account ? Office 365 will be out of the picture as we are trying to ditch everything MS and go open source.
cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 Also this should help make libre office in a web browser for you. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Using_LibreOffice_in_a_Web_Browser Tried that... Quite buggy
featured_spectre Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Google docs is free...tie in the work account to a google mail account and away you go. 1
cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 Could I make one global Goole Account and just let everyone sign into that account and use the apps ? Theres only 10 of us this is why we have looked at restructuring the Network.
featured_spectre Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 In theory yes, but I dont recommend it.
cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 It's a shame Libreoffice in browser is in Developer.... I couldn't get it working correctly.
cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 How would this work @nephilim ? Google docs is free...tie in the work account to a google mail account and away you go.
featured_spectre Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 How To Combine All Your Email Addresses into One Gmail Inbox < explains it all 1
mac_shinobi Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Libre Office based on Open Office or similar I presume ?
FN-GM Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Google docs is free...tie in the work account to a google mail account and away you go. I used to be free, not anymore. - What Should I Do Now that Google Apps Accounts Are No Longer Free? Libre Office based on Open Office or similar I presume ? He wants something web based.
cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 Yes LibreOffice is really another derivative of OpenOffice.
mac_shinobi Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 I used to be free, not anymore. - What Should I Do Now that Google Apps Accounts Are No Longer Free? He wants something web based. I know that - Was just thinking it is odd that Libre Office do a web version but can't find a web based version of open office, that was my thought regards to open office..... 1
JJonas Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 I used to be free, not anymore. - What Should I Do Now that Google Apps Accounts Are No Longer Free? He wants something web based. It is free for education Google Apps for Education
cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 Yeah, we arn't education.. We are An Internet Service Provider.
cpjitservices Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 The web version of LO would be great but it's development only, BETA... and is buggy.
FN-GM Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 It is free for education Google Apps for Education He isn't in education...
cpjitservices Posted February 28, 2014 Author Posted February 28, 2014 Never mind, might have to bite the bullet and buy something like Online office or Google Apps. Thanks all.
gavins38 Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 Although I haven't really tried it properly, I did once look into the online office suite provided by thinkfree.com. It's free to use the online version of the software.
cpjitservices Posted February 28, 2014 Author Posted February 28, 2014 Yeah seen that one, shame its not free. Although I haven't really tried it properly, I did once look into the online office suite provided by thinkfree.com. It's free to use the online version of the software.
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