[KLUG Members] recommended office suite

[bill]

OK, I went ahead and downloaded OO (about 60 megs).  Unzip/untarred it and tried to
run install.  But, it keeps saying "cannot execute binary file".  It would be more
helpful if it told me -which- binary file it can't execute.  What's the deal with
that?  Do I need to untar as root?

adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:

> >I'm guessing that Open Office is the suite of choice these days,
> >StarOffice's star seems to be fading and
>
> No.  Open Office = Star Office.  The developement of the packages track each
> other.  Star Office is Open Office with some commercial (copyrighted) add-ons.
>
> Star Office 5.2 is fading fast.  And with that UI it can't go away fast enough.
>
> >I haven't heard much about WordPerfect Office for Linux.
>
> Last time I used word perfect I'm quite certain I heard faintly, as from a great
> distance, the playing of bugles.  Then I slapped the side of the computer
> monitor real hard because the friggin' app couldn't even keep up with my typing.
>  It is dead,  and while it was the first real word processor released for Linux
> (and I spent $289 for a copy), it won't be missed.  Their Linux port stank.
>
> >What would you recommend for a new student computer?
>
> OO is good, and LARGE.  Equivalent to M$-Office.
>
> I use Star Office because 1.) It is included with my Ximian subscription @ $10 a
> month, so it is "free".  2.) Includes templates,  not a show stopper, but
> installing OO I'd have to take 10 minutes and import the templates from SO5.2.
> OO doesn't come with any templates (yet). 3.)The commercial spell checker in SO
> is *currently* superior to the one in OO,  and supports multiple languages,
> which if your student is mono-ligual they won't care about.  4.) The logo is
> cooler :)
>
> But don't dismiss the applications (Abiword, Gnumeric, etc...) that come with
> Ximian.  Gnumeric is a REAL industrial-strength spreadsheet.  And Abiword is
> perfectly serviceable for 90% of documents (last time I check; no footnotes.
> which makes it useless for me).
>
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