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[robinbloke]

Goodbye Microsoft, hello Openoffice

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[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

When I tried to install that, my computer died. And so I had to uninstall it and go back to Windows. Boo.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Oh boo :( It all worked quite wonderfully for me, picked up my excel sheets nicely and generally had me deleting my copies of word and suchlike within minutes :)

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

Helloooo
Tell me about it then?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

A free office suite package, I've known about it for ages but in the spirit of keeping my new PC legal decided to install it.

It replaces (and can read/write) word/excel/etc documents.

Very nice, I like it.

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

What about StarOffice?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well Staroffice a) costs $79 and b) is for Linux.

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

What, it's not free anymore? I have it on cd.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Looks like I looked at a bad link. StarOffice is now built from OpenOffice anyway, they're virtually the same thing it seems.

[dmh.livejournal.com]

It's not just for Linux, ol' buddy! :o) Prior to upgrading to OpenOffice.org 1.1 I was using StarOffice 6.0 (available for Windows, Linux and Solaris, and an alias of OpenOffice.org 1.0).

OpenOffice.org 2.0 should be a big improvement in terms of speed and, er, not looking like a Windows 95 app, and a release candidate should be available in March/April...

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Groovy, will keep my beady eye open for it :)

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

I've downloaded it to the PC in the bedroom, but have not had a chance to take it for a test-flight. What are your first impressions?

I'm not sure if I'll use it because of the problems with exchanging complex Docuements with embedded tables and spreadsheets

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

More complicated spreadsheets I'd be a little wary of using on it, but so far it seems fairly slick and pretty rugged.
And it's freeeeee! ahem.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

...and legal too!

You're not one to look a gift-horse in the mouth then? ;@)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Nope, I generally try and pat it on the nose, feed it some sugar and say "Good horsie."

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

...and then it follows you home and is you and your roses' friend :@)

[razornet.livejournal.com]

Btw if you've ever wondered about using linux but thought it was too damn strange:

www.ubuntu.com (possibly org/or net)

Very friendly, and based on debian so pretty powerful under the hood too.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Oh I've shellscripted and hacked my way through linux and unix before (well, about 10 years ago, eeep!) just I have no real reason to use linux since the principal apps I use (games) aren't particularly linux friendly!

[briggsy.livejournal.com]

I like OpenOffice, I have it on my laptop (PII 266 / 160MB RAM / Linux, so it isn't a resource hog really) and will probably put it back on my PC because I HATE HATE HATE DESPISE DETEST HATE EVIL NASTY Microsoft Office.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well with my nice new PC I wanted an office app and wasn't going to fork out 100 odd quick for the latest gawdawful version of M$office. :)

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

yay! :))

[jonny-eol.livejournal.com]

I installed that on my new computer when it came - wouldn't swap it for M$ Office at all now. I'm determined that my Microsoft affiliation starts and stops with Windows - everything else they do I can live without, including Hotmail and MSN.