Re: office application

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

Actually you might want http://www.openoffice.org instead of
staroffice.  Staroffice is not free, check the license.  They are
basically one and the same although I have a feeling that OpenOffice
will mature faster than StarOffice

On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 14:21, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> 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
> 
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