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If you insist, you could run MS-Office using wine, crossover office or even VMware, but I'm not sure how much Office-2007 has been tested in that manner.

I'm not sure. Have you tried the SuSE web site?

FWIW, FireFox is much more standards-compliant than IE. If you're having problems with the way Firefox renders pages, it's most likely because the page itself is not standards compliant. Run the problematic pages yourself. And send the results to the page maintainer of the problematic page so it can be fixed.

Tell them if they want your business they need to support web standards instead of proprietary Microsoft standards. But you can often fool them into working anyway simply by changing the user-agent string reported by your browser. There's a few Firefox extensions for this available. About the only thing that's a show-stopper is Active-X, but because of its dismal security record you probably shouldn't be doing business with sites that insist on using Active-X anyway.

For binaries it a good idea to stick with those built for your specific distribution. Building from source is the best solution when a package isn't available for your distribution. But building from source rpms (.src.rpm) from a different distribution often needs some tweaking because of distribution-specific macros used by the rpmbuild program. Many source tarballs include generic .spec files to build rpm packages for any distribution, though.

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