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Gnumeric 1.0 Has Arrived

Posted by timothy on from the good-gnews dept.

plastercast writes: "Gnumeric 1.0 is now out, which makes the Gnome desktop even more 1.0-tastic, with the recent milestones of Galeon and Evolution. ... For those that do not know, Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program with the ability to include all sorts of neat bonobo objects, and also can create graphs through guppi, the Gnome graping program. Enjoy!" Update: 12/31 20:08 GMT by T : That's "graphing." Graping is for the stroke of twelve. Update: 12/31 21:01 GMT by T : Jody Goldberg writes "You folks posted the story a touch too quickly. The release announcement just went out 5 minutes ago."

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  1. That is true, but... by cscx · · Score: 0, Troll

    Although GNumeric is a great program, and I appreciate the effort, it is not Excel. Nor will it ever be Excel. Nice free alternative for Linux, but if you don't want to settle for anything but the best, go for Excel.

    1. Re:That is true, but... by gomadtroll · · Score: 0, Troll

      The missing piece for your fantasy is the re-education camps for those who's reality differs ever so slightly from yours.

  2. It's the (MICROSOFT) apps! by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 1, Troll
    The point is that the apps people would most desperately want to see migrated to linux are Microsoft apps - Office in particular (thats the point of all these Excel ripoffs, isn't it???). Guess what? It ain't gonna happen.

    The true reality, the one that bites, is that linux users need to realize that linux is utterly useless as a desktop platform. Deal with it! The userbase is so small that no one is ever going to waste time migrating apps that aren't precisely vertical in nature (like Maya). In fact, linux only has one modern, competitive general market desktop app - Mozilla. The rest of the apps are useless or outdated (yes, StarOffic included).

    Stick to using linux for serving and web development - thats one market linux can win.

  3. Where's the innovation? by kevlar · · Score: 2, Troll


    This is simply a "verbatum" copy of Excel. There's nothing innovative here.