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Old 12-17-2008, 03:18 PM   #1
HiIamBill
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Looking for a Productivity/Office Suite with a small footprint.


This is actually for FreeBSD, but any Linux package will do... I'm trying to setup a FreeBSD virtual machine with a small memory footprint. Currently, I'm running on 256MB of RAM under Xfce4 and it's all running very well. Infact, I could probably knock it down to 128MB without any problems. However, I think I'd like to see if I can get some productivity software a little more comprehensive than MousePad. Specifically, I'm looking for something with a good word processor and spreadsheet application. Anything else is a bonus.

So does anyone know a good productivity suite that is made with small memory requirements in mind? I already have OpenOffice, KOffice, Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft Office XP installed on different virtual machines, so I'd like to see if I can get something new. I was looking into Lotus Symphony, but they had a 512MB requirement, which disgustingly is higher than any other suite including MS Office 2007.

So, anyone got any good recommendations?

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Old 12-17-2008, 03:34 PM   #2
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hi,
for word processing, I'd suggest abiword, as for spreadsheets, try out gnumeric.
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