Not sure about spreadsheets (there are several that are fine on
the computational end, but nothing has the scriptability, embedding
capabilities, and feature richness of Excel). Look at www.gnome.org
for gnumeric; it's still pre-1.0 and a toy compared to Excel but Gnome
moves _very_ rapidly and Miguel de Icaza, its author, is the head Gnome
software stud:
http://www.gnome.org/gnumeric/
For a word processor, check out the Linux version of Corel's WordPerfect.
It becomes available from www.download.com tomorrow (December 17th)
and is free for personal use and very reasonably priced for business.
Haven't read any reviews of it yet, but I have heard it's a lot smaller
than StarOffice (it would be hard to get much bigger).
miket
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 12:00:33PM +1100, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good Spreadsheet program and Word-type program for
use with X. I'm looking for something that people who are familiar with MS
Excel/Word could use. Pref. not Star Office (too big)
Regards,
Stephen Lavelle
