It is most generous of Mr. Workman to put together a OO package for Slackware and it is greatly appreciated, but I've found the Go-OO version of OpenOffice to have better compatibility with ms-word and powerpoint documents.

just don't use Go-OO on a machine with only 1gig of ram and a 2.8gig processor. I tried using a windows version at work and it couldn't do hardly anything without pausing for 5 seconds after each action. Same version of OO ran extreemly smoothly

Thanks for the suggestion; OOo meets my needs.

yes by definition it may not be an office suit. most of my document preparation is done in latex. (all kinds of docs, letters, presentations etc) ofcourse it cant do what excel does.

here we have a set of people who only use latex for most of the purposes. and since most of the distribution has oofice we use it for viewing document files. these days i use lyx for immediate preparation of the documents and final formatting is done in latex.

regards

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Well, I've used OO and Go-OO on both Slackware and XP-SP3 and Go-OO does load faster, but other than that I've haven't noticed one bit of difference in overall speed (performance). However, as I've said, Go-OO has, without a doubt, greater compatibility, "exchangability" if you will, with ms-office/word/excel/powerpoint documents.
I"ve ran Go-OO on a 900 MHz Althlon with 500 megs of ram and it performed very well. A old system like that isn't going to set any land speed records, but, as I said, Go-OO ran just fine.

I have to say, and I know that I am being a heathen here, but I have yet to encounter an office suite that holds a candle to MS Office.

Running under WINE, Word 2007 loads up in about 2.8 seconds on my pretty dated AMD Athlon64 3200+.
Excel 2007 loads in under 2 seconds.

Yes, you have to pay for it, but it is worth every penny. Let's be plain: MS Office is the leader, and all of the free alternatives are, more or less, trying to imitate it. Especially if you use it for work as I do, OpenOffice just doesn't quite stack up. In the business world, MS Office is the office suite.

A lot of features in PowerPoint 2007 seem to break WINE, but I also have my old Office 2003 CD, so I installed that version of PowerPoint, and it works great.

MS makes a craptastic operating system, but the office suite has been the best out there for over a decade.

I've always liked OpenOffice ( using it ever since v1 ) however I have to admit that I've not used any of the others like KOffice. OO seems to moving forward at a good pace with good stability and features so I think I'll stay there. We'll just have to see what happens under Oracle's watch.

Actually, I think m$office is just bloating with fancy interfaces and animated paperclips what visicalc, lotus 1-2-3, wordstar and dbase did for my apple ][ with z80 card and my first ibm-pc in 1982. They were a little primitive but very fast and efficient. I think what we need now is an office suite that follows a different pathway from that m$ office is taking. We don't need to follow every stupid step m$ takes. If m$ puts a "ribbon" in its office suite, OO will try to imitate it? I mean, our window managers and our office suites must take their own ways. Fluxbox and Koffice are doing good jobs in this regard, if you really need a GUI. I may sound a little radical, but I will stick up for vim and TeX.

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