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Linux Office Suites

Posted by michael on from the my-money-is-on-koffice dept.

Cowculator writes: "Sun Microsystems will release the beta version of StarOffice 6.0 in October, with the development version already available. This ZDNet article has some more details, including a link to the development version..." Other submitters sent in notes about Gobe Productive and Hancom Office 2.0, not to mention KOffice and the Gnome office applications. As far as I know all of these are lacking the single most important thing, a robust and complete set of import filters for Word, Wordperfect, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.

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  1. My experience with StarOffice... by exceed · · Score: 1, Troll

    My experience with StarOffice wasn't very good. I didn't get a chance to really look around it alot because it was so slow on my K6 @ 266mhz with 64mb of RAM. I believe it's coded in Java (which would make sense, since StarOffice is made my Sun). Hopefully this new release is a little speedier, I'll give it a try when it becomes stable.

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