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General Statement of Purpose and Scope:      

    The Orange Coast IBM PC User Group (OCIPUG) Operating System and Productivity Suites Special Interest Group (SIG) provides presentations on desktop and notebook, non-Apple, non-server, “mainstream”, PC operating systems and compatible productivity software suites, a forum for Random Access (Q&A) on those operating systems and productivity suites, and an opportunity to receive help with associated problems (hands-on assessment and assistance).    

 

SIG Meetings:

    This SIG has gone dark (for lack of a SIG Leader).

 

Next Meeting:

    N/A

 

The following content was copied from the prior dedicated website.

 

Presentations:

 

    SIG Meeting Presentations:

 

    Presentations made in 2011:

 

       Date:  March 15, 2011 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: none (only Operating System and Productivity Suites News)

       Date:  February 15, 2011 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: none (only Operating System and Productivity Suites News)

       Date:  January 18, 2011 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: none (only Operating System and Productivity Suites News)

 

    Presentations made in 2010:

 

       Date:  December 14, 2010 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: OpenOffice (open source productivity suite) - installation and brief tour

       Date:  November 9, 2010 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: PC-BSD (Unix distribution) - installation and brief tour

       Date:  October 12, 2010 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: Scribus (desktop publishing application) - installation and brief tour

       Date:  September 14, 2010 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: Kubuntu (Ubuntu Linux on the KDE platform) - installation and brief tour

       Date:  August 10, 2010 (PDF) - First Meeting

                Featured Topic(s): 

                    Introducing OCIPUG's Newest SIG - Purpose, Scope, and Typical Agenda

                    An Introduction to Operating Systems and Productivity Suites

 

    General Meeting SIG Presentations ("Featured Presentations" only):

 

    Presentations made in 2011: 

 

        Date:  February 15, 2011 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: Windows 7 "god mode"

 

    Presentations made in 2010: 

 

        Date:  September 21, 2010 (PDF)

                    Featured Topic: Corel WordPerfect Office X5 (Standard Edition) - installation and brief tour

 

Provider Links:

 

    Operating Systems

 

        Linux (open source)

            Debian (home) / News

            Fedora (home) / News

            KNOPPIX (home) / News

            Kubuntu (home) / News

            openSUSE (home) / News

            Ubuntu (home) / News

 

        Microsoft Windows

            7 (home) / News

            Vista (home)

            XP (home)

 

        Unix (open source

            PC-BSD (home) / News

 

    Productivity Suites

 

        Microsoft Office 2010

            Home and Student (home) / News

            Professional (home)

 

        Non-Microsoft

            KOffice (open source) (home) / News

            LibreOffice (open source) (home) / News ["The Document Foundation's" fork of OpenOffice]

            OpenOffice (open source) (home) / News

            WordPerfect Office (Corel) (home) / News

 

    Add-Ons, Utilities, and More

 

        Add-Ons

            GIMP (open source) (home) / News

            Inkspace (open source) (home) / News

            Scribus (open source) (home) / News

            VirtualBox (open source) (home) / News

            WordPress (open source) (home) / News

 

        Utilities

            Wine (open source) (home) / News

 

        More

            Freebyte (info/links to free - and non-free - operating systems and office productivity suites)

            GNOME (typical Linux and Unix desktop environment) (home) / News

            KDE (alternate Linux desktop environment - as used in Kubuntu) (home) / News

            Kernel.org (Linux kernel info and source)

            SourceForge (the source for open source for all platforms)

 

Resource Links:

 

    Product Reviews

 

        cnet

        IT Reviews (UK)

        PCMag

        ZDNet (operating systems)

        ZDNet (productivity apps)

 

    Product News

 

        See "Provider Links" page for provider news sites.

 

        DesktopLinux

        DistroWatch

        (the) H (open source)

        Linux.com

        OSNews

        Redmond Developer

        ZDNet (Linux)

        ZDNet (MS Office)

        ZDNet (operating systems)

        ZDNet (Windows 7)

 

    "Self Help" (all products and services are FREE unless otherwise noted on the associated site - if applicable, LOOK for the free download)

 

        Disclaimer: These links are provided as a convenience to visitors to this site. We make no representation as to the quality of any product/service or its fitness for any particular purpose. Please contact the noted web site if you have questions about or difficulties in using their product/service.  It is STRONGLY recommended that you contact the product/service provider BEFORE contacting third parties.

 

    Provider Help/Support Sites (by product name)

        Debian

        Fedora

        GIMP (docs and FAQs)

        Inkspace 

        KNOPPIX FAQs / Forum

        KOffice

        Kubuntu

        Microsoft Knowledge Base - Advanced Search (All Products)

        Microsft Office 2007 and 2010 Solution Center

        OpenOffice

        openSUSE    

        PC-BSD

        Scribus

        Ubuntu

        VirtualBox

        Windows Solution Centers:

             Windows 7

             Windows Vista

             Windows XP

        Wine

        WordPerfect Office

        WordPress

 

    Product Identification/Info

        Belarc Advisor  

 

    Third Party "Help" 

        cnet forum (Linux)

        cnet forum (office and productivity)

        cnet forum (Windows 7)

        cnet forum (Windows Vista)

        cnet forum (Windows XP)

        PCMech (Linux and Windows OS forums)  

        protonic ("...submit your problem, get an answer for free...")  

        Smart Computing Magazine Tech Support 

        Tech Support Guy (business applications forum)

        Tech Support Guy (operating systems forum) 

 

    E-tailers (e-commerce retailers) and Pricing Engines

 

        E-tailers

            eWiz/SuperBiiz  

            Fry's Electronics

                Fry's newspaper ads

            Mwave 

            Newegg  

            ZipZoomfly  

                SundaySaver (links to weekly retailer/e-tailer ads)

 

        Pricing Engines

            NexTag  

            PC World   

            PriceGrabber 

            Pricewatch  

            SearchAllDeals  

            Shopper (cnet)

            Shopping.com  

            Yahoo Shopping  

 

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