On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:56:11AM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Last time I was at sun.com getting staroffice, there were sources available > as well. It's pretty big bunch of source or binaries, hey it's supposed to > compete with Office, right? ~:^) The binary that you download comes > packaged as a self installing binary, something you don't see too often on > Linux. I don't recall seeing it for PPC, but I would say that there are a > couple of other options in Debian which are viable, IMHO. Two are: abiword > and lyx (OK, I've tried lyx, it was sufficient for me, but I'm not all that > demanding on word processors, also it is a frontend for LaTex). Heck, > "netscape -composer" does vitually everything I need.
Sure, abiword is nice, as is gnumeric, magicpoint (not yet packaged, but a nice powerpoint like program, i may package it, given time). For lyx, i much prefer plain latex and a nice makefile, ... That said, i think openoffice is important, because the only thing that trully is hindering linux to become a mainstream desktop solution for the unaware is a MSOffice concurrent. What is the main reason most people stay with windows, just word and the odd app they bought, or for gaming, but i am speaking about err, serious users. OpenOffice (or another like program) will remove the lone reason i am not installing linux on the boxes of relatives who come to me crying because their box is totally unuseable because of that nice little outlook virus. Friendly, Sven Luther
