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Title: Looking for an MS Office replacement
Post by: Ryan Lintker on 2002-09-04T12:45:42-05:00 (Wednesday)

I am interested in a free/inexpensive Microsoft Office replacement. In my brief searching, I came across EasyOffice. I downloaded and installed it, and it looks promising. I haven't used it extensively yet. Has anyone else used this or knows of other alternatives? I would like something that runs under windows, but should also have a Linux system fairly soon that could use word processing and spreadsheet apps.

Title: Re:
Post by: Stiffler on 2002-09-04T13:27:16-05:00 (Wednesday)

OpenOffice (Http://www.openoffice.org) is supposed to be excellent. I told Peter about it last year, and he instantly put it on Solar when OpenOffice was still in beta. The final is out now. It is based on the StarOffice 6.0 code. Take a look at it on the Solar VNC.

Jon

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Post by: Michael Kennedy on 2002-09-04T13:30:12-05:00 (Wednesday)

I've used OpenOffice and 602. Both are good, but OpenOffice is the clear winner. 602 is partially pay, too, so that causes it to lose some points. Who wants to be force to pay extra for the spell checker?

Title: Re:
Post by: William Grim on 2002-09-04T21:08:31-05:00 (Wednesday)

Actually, it's based on StarOffice 5.2 code. StarOffice 6.0 is proprietary.

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Post by: Stiffler on 2002-09-04T21:34:20-05:00 (Wednesday)

Actually, it's based off the beta code of StarOffice 6. Sun released the code to a very early beta, and they put up on their website that they share code and help .... yada, yada. I don't remember all of it, because it was a quite a while ago.

Jon

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