You can try OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org). It's built on the StarOffice 5.2 code, but they got rid of the integrated desktop thing. Also, you might want to do a search for Abiword. I'm sure there are others, a search on freshmeat might turn up something interesting. As for an e-mail program, I use Pine, many people here use Mutt. If you want a GUI e-mail client, there are many. Gnome has one or two, KDE has at least one, Netscape/Mozilla has one. You've almost certainly already got one installed on your linux system if you are using either KDE or Gnome. http://www.gnome.org/ http://www.kde.org/ Some more information would be useful about what you want to do with a database. If you're looking for a database that you can connect to via ODBC, either PostgreSQL or MySQL should work with the appropriate options added/compiled. If you want a database GUI that you can use as an ODBC frontend to another database (like the way MS Access can be used to work with ODBC data sources) then I really don't know what's available, but again, a freshmeat search or a google search should turn up something. http://www.freshmeat.net/ http://www.google.com/linux Jeff On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jason Lohrenz wrote: > What office type of package do you use? I've used StarOffice a little bit > but was curious if there are better ones out there. I don't much care for > the central pannel, or whatever their term for it is. > Specifically a good word processor, e-mail program, and a database program > that can use ODBC. > > TIA > > JasonL