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Nimble, Excel-Compatible Spreadsheets for *nix?

Posted by timothy on from the abiword-needs-more-imitators dept.

linguae writes "I'm running a FreeBSD desktop on a PC that has a 475MHz K6-2 processor with 64MB RAM. I use lightweight programs on my desktop such as Window Maker, AbiWord, and Firefox. I have been looking for a decent yet lightweight (and preferably Open Source) spreadsheet that is compatible with Excel, and also doesn't rely on dependencies such as GNOME or Java. I'm not an Excel power user, but sometimes I do have to share spreadsheets every now and then. I wonder if there is a spreadsheet equivalent of Abiword?"

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  1. Firefox lightweight? by damiangerous · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I use lightweight programs on my desktop such as Window Maker, AbiWord, and Firefox.

    Firefox is far from lightweight. It's a great program and all, but lightweight is the last word I'd use. Granted I don't use Windows, so maybe it's relative. I would say that Firefox is the single biggest resource sucking app I run on a regular basis. Not to mention it seems to have some sort of memory leak that makes me eventually have to close it (or it crashes).

  2. Re:OpenOffice by eviljolly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've also used OpenOffice on a low end machine (333mhz Windows NT 128MB/ram), and it ran just as well as Excel. I would suggest giving it a try.

  3. sc -- for super lightweight... by runswithd6s · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Check out sc. Debian package information follows:
    Package: sc
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: math
    Installed-Size: 428
    Maintainer: Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>
    Architecture: i386
    Version: 7.16-2
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1)
    Description: Text-based spreadsheet with VI-like keybindings
    "Spreadsheet Calculator" is a much modified version of the public-
    domain spread sheet sc, which was posted to Usenet several years ago
    by Mark Weiser as vc, originally by James Gosling. It is based on
    rectangular table much like a financial spreadsheet.
    .
    Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and it has most
    features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things like
    graphing and saving in foreign formats. It's very stable and quite
    easy to use once you've put a little effort into learning it.
    --
    assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */
  4. Re:nimble spreadsheet by squant0 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'll second Gnumeric for being a quality spreadsheet app. I like it better then OpenOffice as its quicker starting up and the interface easier IMHO.

    Linux From Scratch lists depends on its site, as well as build instructions: Gnumeric-1.2.10

    It seems to depend on a bit of Gnome-ish things. But having some Gnome stuff isn't a bad idea, and you don't _NEED_ all of Gnome for it to work.