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I notice it runs slowly too, but my computer is only a PI 5 200MHz w/ MMX, so I thought it was just my computer. How did you install it? I ended up installing it in my /opt directory, then I have Workstation installs in the users' directories...
KOffice is the only other "suite" I know of. Otherwise, individual apps are out there, AbiWord for instance.
IMHO - I find that OpenOffice was even a bit slow back when it was a little known program called StarOffice from an even lesser known company called Star Division. But it seems to have overall the best Office file type support than all the others.
I have to have OpenOffice on my computer because I havn't found any other programs that can import and export Word and Excel files as easily. And when you have one computer hooked up to the printer running WinXP w/ OfficeXP, and another computer running Linux, you'd bet that the Linux computer would have to bow to the computer w/ the printer...
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