Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

["joe golden" <jg1024@hotmail.com>]

Thanks so much.

Please keep me posted about how staroffice runs for you.

I would prefer to use more Linux Native software: Abiword, Gnumeric, etc.  
But if they're not up to snuff yet, staroffice may be the answer for now.

Thanks again,

Joe Golden,
The Stevens School of Peacham.

> From: "J.A.Serralheiro" <mrserra@ci.uc.pt>
> To: joe golden <jg1024@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:36:34 +0100 (WET DST)
>
> hi. Just installed staroffice in my computer. Believe it or not, my
> computer is (Still) a 486dx4. But because I have 48 mega of ram and a new
> 20 gigabyte harddrive, for me it runs nice. I can install only some
> applications of staroffice. When I downloaded, there we available small
> packages of each aplication or a huge 100 mega package, that after
> instalation it will take 256 mega plus 1.6 megas per user. Staroffice is
> nice. I havenet tested
> it, but Im sure that if you have enough memory, ex 32 mega and pentium
> processor it will run very very well. If you say you are upgrading from
> win nt, then you have such machines, otherwise the computers with net were
> horribly slow. AS for my opinion, staroffice is very nice, A plus is that
> staroffice interface is rather similar to windows, which makes it very
> atteractive to newbies.
>
>
> regards
>
> J.A.Serralheiro
>
> (do network instalation)

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