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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. nimble spreadsheet by lscoughlin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gnumeric is about as close as you're going to get.

    It's really quite nice...

    I'm not sure if it still has any gnome dependencies or not.

    But really
    abiWord:word::gnumeric:excel

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  2. OpenOffice by seinman · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenOffice runs on my P1/150mhz system with 48 megs of RAM. It starts up a little slow (30 seconds or so) but once it's going, has no problems. You can do a custom install so that you can use only the spreadsheet program without taking up the HD space on the word processor and presenation programs.

  3. A fair few actually... by polyp2000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Spreadsheets/

    An amazing tool google ... you ought to try it sometime....

    OTOH Gnumeric and / or OOo would be a good place to start. OOo xls compatibility is very good in my experience. Havent used Gnumeric for a while last time (several yrs ago) its xls compatibility was a tad ropey - Im sure its improved by now though!

    Nick

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  4. 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.
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    assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */
  5. Re:Firefox lightweight? by DAldredge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    url:http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#ot h_memcache?

    Turn down the memory cache. Follow the steps at the link above and then fully restart firefox. It will make a huge difference.

    Their are a lot of config hacks at that link that will let you do a lot on really neat stuff.

  6. GNOME Depends are optional in next release by Jody+Goldberg · · Score: 4, Informative

    The upcoming 1.4.0 release (due in the next few days) supports a --without-gnome configure time option that decreases functionality (no gnome-vfs means no direct http support), but still works nicely as a spreadsheet. We use this for our win32 port.