StarOffice and Adobe Reader

Today is the first day of my masters class and I've brought with me the EEE because on of the readings is a PDF file. The wireless internet connection is relatively easy to access here and would seem to be pretty easy for students if they are taught how to do it for the first time. All one has to do is click on the little signal icon on the bottom right status bar and find the router to connect to.

As for the PDF, Xandros-lite(as I will continue to call this OS on the EEE), uses Adobe Reader to open the PDF files. Reader runs relatively smoothly and usually comes free with any OS. The benefit is that it can read any PDFs but cannot make PDFs. Then again, there are other programs out there that can do that that are free (but it doesn't seem too easy to add these programs to Xandros-lite, if they make them for this OS). Adobe reader is excellent but with a smaller PC, the text(if very small) needs to be zoomed in. Otherwise, it runs relatively smoothly. There is another PDF reading program on Ubuntu that runs very smoothly as well in terms of scrolling which I can't remember right now.

The other window I have open is a powerpoint presentation I have for the first class. Xandros-lite uses StarOffice(a kind of multiple software suite with a liking to Microsoft Office or OpenOffice) to open PDF files and runs relatively smoothly. Again, the smallness of the EEE might make the text hard to read if there is a good amount of text on the slide, but making the presentation full screen really helps. Writing notes on the PDF may be kind of difficult though as it makes the screen extremely tiny with the top half showing the slide and the bottom half allowing you to type. The problem with this is that you literally cannot read any of the text. It's way too tiny. I would probably open another word processing program to take notes on instead.