Andy Zbikowski wrote: > > > > Either of you care to comment on how well koffice works? I _need_ a decent > > office suite... I find myself needing to make charts. > > > > ApplixWare.. Really, check it out, so far it has been totally worth the $70 > price tag. As far as Koffice goes, keep in mind that it's still pre-beta. > (kword version = pre-beta1) But, it looks functional. I just toyed with it > for a moment. > > Right now ApplixWare 5.0 seems to be the best choice. Koffice is next in > line. Star/Open/Gnome Office is getting there, but they'll be the last to > throw their weight around in this arena. I know that we recommend agnist > StarOffice on the LTSP ( http://www.lstp.org ) due to it's large memory > footprint. > > Really, check out ApplixWare 5.0 (I picked up my copy at CompUSA for around > $70). It uses GTK so it will look great with GNOME, and looks OK with KDE2. > Before spending the $70.00 I think you should give StarOffice a try (simply because it is free and installs very easily). I agree it is huge, and it is too microsoftish for my taste, but it is incredibly capable. If you come from an excel/word background you will have no trouble with StarOffice. My two cents... Kent --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org