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Re: [Sheflug] Office apps - OpenOffice.org
>From my own experience (which isn't that vast), I've found abiword to be
very nice on lower spec machines, as already mentioned though it doesn't
support tables, but is quite stable and combined with gnumeric (a really
good spreadsheet program) they can make up quite a nice office suit.
Evolution is also nice for impressing people (its kind of an outlook
clone for Linux, but it only clones the nice parts!)
Alan
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 17:07, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> Steve Tickle wrote:
> > as my previous experiences with SO 5 pointsomething was that it was good
> > but ran slower than a three legged dog on our trailing-edge technology.
> > Besides, he's looking to cut the costs of and simplify licensing so it
> > doesn't make a lot of sense to go with SO.
>
> OK, this might be a bit of an off-shot, but if your users only do
> simple letters without anything else (you know, the old fashioned way
> of doing things: a document is a combination of paragraphs, sometimes
> you change fonts, sometimes you don't &c...), and you have old kit,
> abiword might be able to help out. It is fast and small, but it is
> still under heavy development. It doesn't support tables, but other
> than that... Well, give a try :-)
>
> On the spread sheet front, gnumeric does a reasonable job taking
> little resources.
>
> Of course, you can get everyone to use vi, but :-)
>
> José
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