Xubuntu and OOo

[Carroll Grigsby]

Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> Is there some reason why OpenOffice is not packaged as part of Xubuntu. 
> In my experience, it is a much more capable office suite that the 
> combination of abiword, gnumeric, and a few other gnome programs.
> 

Sasha:
AAUI, the goal of the Xubuntu project is to provide an Ubuntu based 
distribution that will run on older hardware. In order to meet this 
goal, the developers confined the software selection to programs with 
minimal memory and cpu requirements. Whatever else can be said about 
OpenOffice (and I happen to like it), it uses a lot more resources than 
do the abiword/gnumeric combination. Of course, if your hardware is up 
to the task, you can always download and install OpenOffice to an 
Xubuntu system.

-- cmg