...is OpenOffice still out there???

It is.
http://www.openoffice.org/

Why not, if you don't mind typing a few more words?

I'm interested in any thoughts that OOo is better than LibO. I haven't heard of any reasons. And I will be very interested if anyone votes for Go-oo as better than LibO, because LibO really supersedes that.

Long time using OpenOffice, which then upgraded/updated into LibreOffice, never bothered trying any of the rest.

When it ain't broke don't fix it !


OK few hiccups when change occurred all soon enough resolved, with no problems for what am doing. Admit doing a lot less now than previously.


Earlier used LibreOffice with MySQL a lot, though not recently, almost miss it.

Thanks sycamorex...my distro retired it in favor of libre, always wonderd why (somehow)...not that libre is bad, but I liked OpenOffice.
The downloads are RPM or DEB only :( - I need a simple tarball. Maybe I'll compile the thing from scratch..., eh, why not, this IS Linux, after all...

Well, not that it has some definite reason, it's just this overall experience of using them both. Libre feels differently. It's less stable, less conservative. I am very conservative. Some time ago I saw a news about Libre that they are planning on changing graphics layout to something more modern which if true will make me dislike Libre even more.

I vote none of the above. OOO and Libreoffice are slow and clunky. Gnome office isn't functional enough for my needs. Koffice is large, clunky, slow, AND ugly. Go-oo and Lotus Symphony aren't in almost any repositories, so just more hassle than they're worth IMO.

I can get the changing graphics aspect. And I wonder if they would be well advised to introduce some kind of theme support - with at least a "conservative OOo style" theme! :)

Oddly, I find LibO more stable. And it incorporated a number of fixes and improvements almost straight away that weren't even in Go-oo. I get a very strong feeling that the LibreOffice dev community is building good things and the OpenOffice developers are not.

What about Siag?
Its super lightweight, and light on extraneous features, also comes with a file manager. It's very nice on small systems, even got it running on a pure darwin machine.

The 'Office Suite' category doesn't allow to choose 'LyX', a document editor, which is an excellent programme with results far superior to those of LibreOffice.

Siag was removed a few years back after it got 0 votes multiple times. It also appears there hasn't been a new release since around 2006.

--jeremy

Yeah, I wish someone would come up with a modern equivalent to it. Something not based on java, but has all the features.

LIbre Office :)

To clarify. Please add a 'Word Processor' or 'Document Processor' category, similar to the DE/WM separation. In this category you could include LibreOffice Writer, AbiWord, Ted, TeXmacs, LyX, etc. Personally I find it very frustrating that I cannot vote for LyX in any of the current polls.

We used to break the suites out into individual categories and stopped a few years back. We have no plans to move back in that direction at this time.

--jeremy