Xubuntu and OOo

[Sasha Tsykin]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:

> 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
>
>
Thanks