knoppix

[Leo J Mauler]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:37:07 -0600 "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov>
writes:
> >>> "Brian Densmore" <> 03/15/04 09:22AM >>>
>>  Secondly,
>> the cheapware office-clone stopped working, but only 
>> the word-processor. So suspecting that they installed 
>> a game since I last re-installed the "office" for them I 
>> re-installed it and ... tada, it works again. Something 
>> installed a new version of the MFC libraries and of 
>> course they aren't backwards compatible or the junk 
>> software they use for "office" can't deal with anything 
>> but one specific version. I also gave their daughter a 
>> Knoppix CD. I'm not  expecting much, though.
> 
> Did you try to sell them on Open Office? Or is their 
> PC too slow?

Older PCs can still handle the reasonably compatible Star Office 5.1.  On
Linux systems StarOffice 5.1's minimum install is only 100MB of hard
drive space.  Star Office 5.2 isn't much bigger.

StarOffice also had the distinction of coming with a database app as part
of the suite, the Adabas database.  Not sure why OpenOffice.org never
tried to get enough rights to Adabas to include a database app as part of
OpenOffice.org.

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