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Review of Hancom Linux 2.01 Standard
ELQ writes: "The Korean-based Hancom Linux announced that the professional version of Hancom Office Suite 2.0 is canned, but the standard version has just been released, four days ago. It seems to be a capable alternative to Star Office, for a very reasonable price. It includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation app and a rasterized painting app. OSNews has the review."
I'll stick with my AbiWord, Gnumeric, Evolution setup.
But still... nice.
...about this one being called Linux and not GNU/Linux as it seems stuffed full of very unfree software.
from North or South Korea ?
Hancom Office when I tried it 6 months ago.. sucked royally. They could have spent the time making a product that people would have bought up readily and fast...
Import filters for Open Office that correctly import/export Microsoft file formats.
I know I would pay $79.95 for such a beast.
Open office feels and works well.. the only place it's lacking is the import/export... and Hancom could have made a TON of money making those tools.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Ummm... isn't Star Office the 'alternative' :)
to MS office, (and free)? So this is a non-cost
effective alternative to an free-alternative? It truely is the end of the world. I'm going back to vi.
Scaled down versions of the Hancom apps are on the new Sharp Zaurus. Played with on the other day and they seemed to work as well as the MS apps on Compaq etc.
Listen, I prefer to send my docs out as pdf files or rtf if I can get away with it.
.doc format. I rely on OpenOffice at this point to do that job for me on documents without a great deal .doc style voodo and formatting going on inside. (I have only had one doc that refused to convert correctly with some very nasty embedded graphics by the way.)
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However, I have been asked more than once to send a document in the dreaded
Unless a word processor can save in the dreaded doc format I am not about to chunk OpenOffice for all its speed issues anytime soon. It is a sad thing that corporate america has hinged most of its documentation onto this standard but they have.
I don't mean this as a troll because anytime a commercial software company releases software for linux its nice in terms of having options. I just hope they get their filters straight for the next release.
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An UPDATE was just released.. 2.0.1
Pro is still planned *someday* according
to their last user emailing.. not 'canned' (yet)
---- Booth was a patriot ----
If you want linux to be the OS of the elite it makes perfect sense to bash this product. User friendliness (or an OS being picky about its friends) is undesirable and annoying (who needs a mouse anyway...).
If however, what you want is more OS variety worldwide (read open market with no barriers to entry) products like this will help a lot. I think that because I believe so strongly in open source OS's I have to support these kinds of suites. They will increase the likelihood of open source OS reaching the general public. I know, there are a lot of people here who feel a lot closer to that first paragraph.
Liora
Not a raster painting app?
May we never see th
Applelinks had a preview a few months ago, and it's worth noting the differences between that review's projected features and the ones revealed in today's review.
But even more important than that is to remember that this Office suite isn't only aimed at Linux. It's also aimed squarely at the MacOSX crowd, which could help expand its market penetration. (Businesses that are slow to adopt Linux on the desktop are often less tentative about permitting MacOSX installations.)
Serious competition to The GIMP, no?
When will they come out with a FreeBSD version? We need to demand applications for this popular operating system to counter the inordinate amount of *linux hype out there which is causing businesses to go out of business in droves.
more flame fuel...forget vi vs. Emacs and Gnome vs. KDE...now we've got Hancom vs. Star/OpenOffice vs. KOffice vs...
Slashdot, the site where everything's made up and the points don't matter
does all this stuff, saves files to .doc, .xls, and .pdf and is due out for linux Real Soon Now(TM). oh yeah, it also costs the same right now. and also the license that comes with Gobe Productive is much more user friendly. apart from the fact that this is out for linux now, it doesn't seem all that impressive.
FYI: Gobe's website.
my pet machine
I went out and bouth Hancom Office when I read that the Visio clone had scripting. But it's just like KOffice -- some APIs exposed to Python, and undocumented APIs at that. I gather you can at least figure out the KOffice API if you know Python, but Hancom doesn't even provide that much info.
Hancom Office costs $59.95, cannot export to Word .doc format, cannot do fonts anti aliasing, and works only with standard (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake) Linux distributions.
On the other side - CrossOver Office costs $54.95, and it's running your own copy of Office 97 & 2000 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, even Outlook and Explorer!), does fonts anti-aliasing, runs on all Linux distributions, reads/writes .doc formats perfectly, and your money supports the biggest code contributions to WineHQ tree.
Now - could someone explain to me why would I need to buy Hancom Office?
Hetz (Heunique)
"...almost any Windows user...a Dell, HP, Gateway, Compaq...90% chance..."
To mangle a metaphor, what does this have to do with the price of dried plums in Korea?
I am not "almost any Windows user"; in fact, I'm not a Windows user at all, except for a few rare instances where I have to use one of the university machines to get around truly horrible Windows-isms in some important (for 2 seconds) Web sites.
I didn't buy my computer, unless you count the fact that the floppy drive came with the 486 SX-22 that my parents bought years and years ago. I guess I still have a valid license for Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Works.
I'm not "90%", I'm a Linux user. I don't steal commercial software, and I don't want to buy Microsoft Office...not even from UMBC for $20. I don't want to run emulated software; I want a Linux office program that does what I need.
The ironic bit is that I agree with you; this doesn't look to be worth the price. OpenOffice does everything I need, apparently better than this, and it's free (in both ways). Why would I buy this?
That said, it's good to see people trying, though it would also be nice to see them work to improve existing implementations (this is all mentioned above by other people). Someone else above mentioned the Korean car industry, and this ties in with what I've been saying about Asia: this is where the "revolution" will occur. People who can't afford Micrsoft prices, or don't want to give that much money to (or trust) a shady United States company. There are LOTS of people in Asian countries, and most of them aren't nearly as firmly stuck in the land of Microsoft and consumer culture as the majority in the U.S.
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It seems good from the screenshot. If the import/export is as good as hancom described. I don't care the price.
Hopefully this will offer better results with Asian language word processing in OS X. Appleworks looks fine on screen, but refuses to print Chinese properly and has problems understanding cut and paste in Chinese. Office X allows you to write and print in Chinese just fine, but ONLY after running a conversion app that causes many of your menus to mutate into Japanese.
does it have a spell checker? The previous version of Word did not, and it's silly to expect people to pay $$$$ for such a thing.
They blow his brains out all over the concrete
Hey, I'm one of that fu*king Korean and really hate such boneheaded racists like you. If we could bring all of them to some isolated island and nuke it to the ground, it'll be the most beneficial contribution to the world peace.
...spamming software too. How else will the propogate the good will of people like Alan Ralsky and Empire Towers?
Does this thing run under Wine? I think it was demo'd at Linux World as a Wine application.
afaik it doesn't even have interoperability between it's own apps, so embeding a table from the spreadsheet into a text is a no go.
guess i'll stick to openoffice
well, i didn't read the review yet, but my Zaurus came with a version of Hancom including word, the spreadsheet, and the powerpoint presenter. I can't say anything about the desktop version, but the handheld one is the best solution i have ever seen for a pda.