Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
On Sun, 20 May 2001, D. Hoyem wrote:
>For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There
>is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that
>it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not
>sure about the depends.
When they came out with Corel Linux, they made a .deb file for WP8. It
was compiled against Slink, so there may be some breakage, but I've heard
they solved that when they came out with Corel Linux 1.2, which is closely
related to potato.
>--- joe golden <jg1024@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT
>> network over to Linux. Some
>> of the main computer applications at our school are
>> web browsing , word
>> processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer,
>> Word and Excel).
>>
>> I am running Linux debian 2.2.18pre21 and just
>> updated last week.
>>
>> Netscape makes a great replacement for Internet
>> Explorer.
>>
>> Abiword seems to work OK, but sometimes appears to
>> split lines and I've had
>> problems importing an image into a document. I
>> haven't used Abiword much,
>> but have already seen these problems. What is a
>> better alternative that
>> isn't too bloated. This is the major application we
>> need for the school.
>>
>> For spreadsheets in school, you need to make graphs.
>> Gnumeric seems slick,
>> but last time I checked, *no graphs*. I need
>> graphical representation of
>> data for test scores, etc.
>>
>> Is Star Office the answer? Can the huge Star office
>> package be broken into
>> smaller more manageable parts?
>>
>> Thanks for previous help and thanks in advance,
>> Joe Golden,
>> The Stevens School of Peacham
>>
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