Re: Office suites...

[Ross <nospam [at] virgin.net>]

for a small basic (stable) office suite you could try http://siag.nu/
it's only about 7Mb but is quite well integrated! the only draw back i
have found is that it is a little basic. it's not word or wordperfect.
but it does come in binary form and dead easy to use. if you come across
something a bit more advanced, i'd appreciate you letting me
know........

Foz wrote:
> I need a word processor (High priority), spread sheet (low priority) and
> presentation package (optional). Now this is the difficult part. I
> dislike Word Perfect 8, Applix (the feel of these two packages
> makes me cringe), and Star Office (on a machine with 32Mb of
> ram?!?).

i'm running 64Mb on a pII 300 and 'SO' is dam slow ?!?!

Maybe someone can let us know if the java environment is required or
does it slow the thing down. it takes forever to start-up. it wouldn't
be so bad if it was possible to start parts of the suite with out the
fake desktop thing! i.e. word processor / spread sheet / etc......

> AbiWord is (at the mo) refusing to work with my machine
> plus it is not quite finished, so I don't want to entrust my essays
> onto it at the moment. Now spreadsheets aren't really a problem,
> there are quite a few on SuSE 6.3, including a console based one.
> Does anyone know of a console based word processor? Or if not a
> WP that is small and useful. Then I can use Linux more often. and
> Windows NT less (3 BSOD yesterday, of which 2 then went to
> reboot without me asking...)
>
> Any suggestions are welcome... :-)
>

lyx (i think that's what it's called?) is a WP and comes with suse 6.3
(look under the TEX section when installing packages with YAST) but it's
not easy to use (in my humble windows background opinion!) but does give
good results after hours of torture!!!!!!

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