Re: Open office

[studio-64 <fsmith@walescomputers.co.uk>]

Helge Hafting wrote:
> Lars Schimmer wrote:
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> > Adam Stiles wrote:
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> > > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 08:09, Rob van Kraanen wrote:
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> > > A lot of people think they need OOo for the same reason that a lot of 
> > > people think they need MS Office, or Windows.
> > >   
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> > Because it IS used.
> > We are all NOT private persons and if you are at office, you NEED some
> > software which IS stable for some years and which works nicely with MS
> > Office docs and produces some nice files.
> > And you need something which works on nearly all platforms, Apple OS X,
> > Windows XP AND Linux.
> Some ms-office compatibility is nice, fortunately openoffice is not
> needed for that.  I chuck the .doc/.rtf at abiword, and gnumeric handles
> the excel stuff.  About a hundred times faster than openoffice, which
> I only ever use to read the _openoffice_ documents people occationally
> send me.
>
> Helge Hafting

Hi
I'm trying to install Abiword (For the many Docs I get)
It seems when I atp-get install it wants to uninstall:
 gnome-applets gnome-core

Do you know if it's safe to lose these on a Gnome desktop machine?

Cheers
Bob




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