| Why Linux users need OpenOffice [NewsForge] |
Feb. 20, 2002
Although StarOffice 5.2 is included in most Linux distributions these days, the newer and far more advanced StarOffice 6.0 was only offered for a short time on a "beta" basis by Sun (it will become available as a fully released Sun product in the next several months). NewsForge editor Robin 'Roblimo' Miller takes a look at OpenOffice, the open source (and freely downloadable) cousin of StarOffice 6.0, and finds it to be a highly capable alternative. Miller writes . . .
"I have had a love/hate relationship with StarOffice 5.2 since it first came out. I've used it successfully to open, read, and modify files created with Microsoft Office, but for little else, because it was a bloated, often irritating program that tried to do too much and didn't do it all well. OpenOffice does just about everything StarOffice ever did, but it has lost most of StarOffice's irritating features. It is as usable an 'Office' package as you'll find in any operating system, and you sure can't beat the $0.00 price . . ."
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