[svlug] Fw: Re: Fedora or Ubuntu for novis

[Don Marti]

begin Joel Seidman quotation of Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:15:05PM -0700:

> > As an aside, although Open Office, which comes with Fedora
> > and Kubuntu,  is very powerful, it is pretty sluggish on my
> > not-quite-new computers. I've tried Abiword, which I
> > think comes with the ubuntu's and maybe Fedora, and it
> > seems quite capable for basic stuff and is much quicker. And
> > it can generate word-compatible files.

I have this set up as my defaut viewer for incoming
MSFT Word files too.  It will even open some that
OO won't.  Another useful tool for this is Gnumeric,
a fast spreadsheet.
  http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

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