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Small Business ERP - easy to install pack in repositories  
Written by shovelhead the 1 Mar 08 at 15:11. Category: Office. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
This may seem very special, but a lot of small companies (1 to 10 employees) would love to run linux because of the cost (a Win workstation has easily 500 to 1000 Euro of software on it - each and everyone of it).

The one thing that NOBODY gets done: installing an ERP/CRM. Be it Compiere, SQL-Ledger, Post-Books, TinyERP, LX-Office - you name it and I show you a million threads in all the ubuntu-forums "can't install/can't run XYZ after installation"

Most small business just want in, stock, out, furnisher, client, offer, invoice - pretty basic stuff that EVERY ERP can handle.

How about getting one of those into the repositories as an "easy to install" or "no brainer" package? I'd LOVE it - and reading the frums in German, French and English, there are literally several thousand users that would love it, too.


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same name for functions in all programs  
Written by shovelhead the 26 Jun 08 at 08:55. Category: Look and Feel. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Stop naming it "erase" in one half of the programms and "send to trash*" in the other half.

I use two foreign-language versions of ubuntu (German and French). To get rid of a file, I generally right-click and chose "erase" from the menu. This doesn't work half of the time, because the function is inexistant; they now call it "send to trash*".

The actual names in german and french are

- löschen // in den Müll verschieben

- effacer // envoyer à la poubelle

It makes life a lot more difficult and I stumble over that error every time, when I just want to erase a file and I just cant't find the erase function. I want to get rid of something; I don't want to move the trash around - I want it to dissappear - and I want a word for it - ONE WORD! - in the right-click menues.

please name that function "erase // löschen // efacer // ..." in every language and in every program - make it even a criteria for packages to make it into the repos. I am shure we all know, that there is a trash/dustbin and how it works.

* I do NOT know, how these two versions are called in english as I do NOT hava an english system at hand. You may call it "send to trash" or "move to dustbin" or "dump it in the symbol at the lowest, rightmost corner" or .... you got it!

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