OpenOffice Substitutes

[Donald Allwright]

>  I have no complaints about the software that is provided ... but I
> wonder if 
> adopting KOffice would be a better substitute for OpenOffice (as
> provided).  
> My machine has plenty of RAM (256 Meg) but only a slow old G3
> processor.  
> OpenOffice bogs it down to a crawl!  I downloaded KOffice and for 
> preparation/editing of documents I find it much more responsive. 
> 
> On another machine I have tried Abiword ... but I wonder what others
> think of 
> the current version of KOffice??

I did a comparison of KOffice when it was at 1.4, and although much
faster than OpenOffice, it had problems with some features in the
documents I was editing; so I stuck with OpenOffice for the time being.
However, as KOffice 1.4.2 is just out today, I will probably try this
as it's had lots of bug- and compatibility-fixes that should improve
things a lot. It's just _so_ much faster, even on my relatively fast
machine. Looks like packages are now available for both Ubuntu and
SuSE, so will install them shortly.......


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