MISCELLANEOUS FAQS What can I do with MS Office documents? OpenOffice is an open-source, free software project that inherited its source code from StarOffice. To run this program, type: prompt> soffice &
What Matlab clones are available? Octave is available: prompt> octave
See http://www.octave.org for more details.
Can I use a USB flash drive with my SunRay? Yes. When you plug your USB flash drive into your SunRay, an icon with a flash drive logo will temporarily appear on your screen, however, a folder will not pop open. If you are using CDE or JDS, run the following script in a terminal: prompt> flash &
With JDS, you can also place a link in your scripts folder so that when you right-click on the desktop, you can launch the script: prompt> cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts prompt> ln -s /usr/local/bin/flash
When you are finished, just remove your flash drive.