On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 21:38 +0100, John Cooper wrote: > Phillip Chandler wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:07 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:59:51PM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Damian Brasher<l...@interlinux.co.uk> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Some of you may know this, anti-aliasing has been available since 7th > >>>> May. > >>>> Great news and I am already getting stuck in to some new illustrations. > >>> Is it still a bloated an unstable pile of crap? > >> Their aims appear to be to reproduce MS Office exactly, so yes. > > > > Ive never found MS Office to be bloated. But then all Ive needed is > > Word, Excel and Outlook. Im currently running Those three MS products > > under Crossover & Ubuntu 9.04, and found that they are only 197mb > > install, whereas OO is roundabout the 350-400mb size, and OO doesnt > > include email which is extra (Evolution). Plus MS runs faster under > > Crossover compared to the OO alternatives, by a minimum of at least 4 > > seconds. > > > > Ive never heard of anti-aliasing (thingy) and my post is probably > > pointless and not worth reading. MS in the context of what your > > discussing probably is bloated. But I wanted to point out that MS > > Office, in the general scheme of things, is actually better than OO, if > > you are just looking for Word and Excel. But then everything has its > > good points, and bad points too. > > > > Now your all wondering whether 4 seconds is worth it, but then that > > depends on your sex, and what your minds are thinking of at the > > time. :-))))) > > > > > Don't forget you need a valid MS office license to run under Crossover > and that doesn't mean just because you have the windows version you can > install another in Linux. Are you happy paying £200+ for that?
Yep got that. > > OO is free to download and use. OO not only supports MS formats but its > own document formats, Writer using the ISO standard ODT, unlike MS > office. It also has direct PDF export which is very useful. Dont really need PDF export, and if I do then I go online to export one doc every decade. > > The majority of people will find OO good enough to use and its startup > speed will improve as it is being improved all the time. > > For those who think MS office or OO are too bloated, well suggest an > alternative rather than saying both are rubbish. We all need to use > something to compose letters, create spreadsheets and presentations and > I'm very happy with OO for that. > Abiword ? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
