Xubuntu and OOo
Carroll Grigsby
cgrigs at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 16 15:53:35 UTC 2006
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
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