[NTLUG:Discuss] system crash

[Kevin Brannen]

MadHat wrote:
> 
> "Koren, Peter A." wrote:
> >
> > I was on the net. Perhaps you are right. I am a little gun shy about using
> > StarOffice again. I am not a word processor centric person, so sacrificing
> > StarOffice is not to too bad of a problem. I was using it to read a work
> > related Word document while programming and testing code at home (It beats
> > driving to the office). I just hope that some of the upcoming Open Source
> > word processors will be able to import Word dotdoc files.
> 
> If you just need to do word Docs, and not excel, I would recommend Abi
> Word...  much faster and does fine on Word Docs...
> 
> http://www.abisource.com/
> 
> I like it a lot (it uses the GTK, if I remember correctly).
> I only use Star office for Excel Docs now.

I picked up Corel WordPerfect for Linux then other day for $20, which doesn't seem to bad
to me.  It says it can read Word files; I have yet to install it.

I have a love/hate relationship with StarOffice.  I *really* appreciate their work in
getting it on the Linux platform, and it does work reasonablely well; but as others have
pointed out, it's a real resource hog!  So yeh, SO will be used for Excel & the ocassional
PowerPoint file only, and even then usually only long enough to convert the data into
something I can use outside of SO.

Kevin