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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.

8 of 331 comments (clear)

  1. Microsoft has you by the balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Importing will never work fully without the cooperation by Microsoft.

    Buy the fucking license you freeloaders and encase it in a binary module if you're worried about tainting your "precious" GPL code.

  2. Who cares about... by Bruj0 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Winword, exel all that shit. Thouse are propietary formats. I say lest get rid of em!

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  3. Re:Import/Export by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    XML sucks cock. I don't know it and I'll never learn it.

    ASCII based system is both wasteful and time consuming to parse.

  4. 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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  5. GOATSE man - dead at 79 - *sniff* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    I'm so sad my asshole is crying.

    Goatse Man Obituary. This is a link to StileProject.com - no actual picture of the Goatse man here, but it does have porn banners so beware.

    Goatse man. Truly an american icon.


  6. Re:Just as important by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Please forgive me for my typos - I am greiving ...

    Goatse Man Obituary. This is a link to StileProject.com - no actual picture of the Goatse man here, but it does have porn banners so beware.

    Even if you didn't enjoy his work, I'm sure you were fooled into clicking on his link. Truly an American Icon.

  7. Re:Attention, moderators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    GOATSE Man, dead at 79

    Goatse Man Obituary. This is a link to StileProject.com - no actual picture of the Goatse man here, but it does have porn banners so beware.

    WHY GOD

  8. Re:Sad News... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    This is REALLY sad news ...

    GOATSE MAN, dead at 79

    Goatse Man Obituary. This is a link to StileProject.com - no actual picture of the Goatse man here, but it does have porn banners so beware.

    There is a tear in my beer tonight, brother.