Re: office application

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux <tnt linux ca>]

Hello,

On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 01:17, Rahul Garg wrote:
> what i want to know is if there is any thing like msoffice in GNOME or KDE 
> in RedHat Linux 7.1

Sure.  Here the list.

    AbiWord
    http://www.abisource.com/

    A free and open source word processing application similar
    to Microsoft Word.  This is a GNOME application.  (It missing
    a bit of the functionality that Word has... but if you don't
    do anything really complex, then you might not ever notice.)
    You can use Word documents with this application.


    Star Office
    http://www.sun.com/staroffice/

    A free (as in free cake) Office Suit.  Including such thing
    as word processing, spreadsheets, and a presentation application
    (amoung other things).  This is an extremely capable and fully
    featured Office suit.  And very compatible with MS Office file
    formats.


    Open Office
    http://www.openoffice.org/

    This is a free and open source office suit.  Sun (who own Star
    Office [see above]) actually took the Star Office code and GPL'ed
    it; and that is what Open Office is.  (So what I wrote about
    Star Office, above, applies to Open Office too.)


    Gnumeric
    http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

    This is a free and open source spreadsheet application for GNOME.
    (You being from the Windows-world, you'll probably be very 
    interested to know that this application is very compatible with
    Excel.)

I'm assuming you know about all the KOffice stuff.  If not refer to:

    http://www.koffice.org/

For more info on the GNOME office stuff, refer to:

    http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/

(There's actually alot more applications listed there, in
different categories, so you should check it out.)

If you want my opinion, on what to use, (for word processing
at least)... first try AbiWord.  It is extremely fast, and
a light user of memory and other system resources.  If you
find that you can't do what you want in AbiWord, then try
StarOffice.

Hope that helps.

See ya

     Charles Iliya Krempeaux
     tnt @ linux.ca
     ckrempea @ alumni.sfu.ca