I was looking around to find a why to store, share, and even back-up docs off site, and I figured that Google Docs might be worth looking into. Glad I did. GD has recognized everything generated by Open Office, Libre Office, MS Office [used only on machines at work], PDF's, text - everything. I can edit on the fly, upload new versions, download, whatever.

I'm never going to get rid of my text-editors, spreadsheets, what-have-you on my Linux machines, but for Android devices (my Samsung phone and Nook color) this is pretty impressive. Thus worth mentioning...

We package up LO in a really nice fancy box with a #! logo on it..  I mean spare no expense on the box, and with the best quality paper we can get do up a nice simple "#! LO EULA" that anyone can read.

We then put a price tag of $949.99, crossed out in red with "On Sale, Limited Time Only: $549.99".

Anyone that finds the price a bit steep, we slip a copy of the CD under the table while looking around cautiously to make sure we are not seen, thereby making the customer feel like he has a {cough cough} "original copy" FREE!

They will be lining up to buy it!   

@bigbenaugust I remember Applix, also StarOffice the first atempt of Sun to brake the MSO domination, and predecessor of OOo. SO was too slow compared to MSO. I use OOo and LibreOffice and LO is faster, so far not a glitch, but I never put it under real stress like an office environment. Sometimes people dont understand that switching to open source products have their benefits, like cutting license costs. One time I move an entire company first to SO and then to OOo to cut the high licenses prices of MSO, in less than a month people was screaming asking for EXCEL, because "is not the same thing". End of the story they prefer to pay a lot of money because "is not the same thing" factor.

I uninstalled sid, now just using wheezy. As for Liquorix kernels, if you're using wheezy or sid, it's a good addition, it comes patched and helps with new hardware

new hardware?  me - hahahaha - my hardware is almost as old as I am.  Guess I gotta google and read more.

Thanks

Liquorix - is that like Bailey's Irish Cream?
I've seen that and wonder as well if it's a worthwhile thing for a desktop.  (Another topic.)

Uninstalling Wheezy?  Or Sid?

I uninstalled sid, now just using wheezy. As for Liquorix kernels, if you're using wheezy or sid, it's a good addition, it comes patched and helps with new hardware

As for usage, I use oocalc for a lot of things, household finances among them. The rest of the SO/OO/LO suite... meh.

Thanks to Istvan and Sector11 for mentioning Ted. I had never used it, and it gets the less-is-more award for the month.  It's a nice little editor.

The 64-bit version built and installed easily from the source tarball, requiring only libpcre3-dev, libxpm-dev, and libtiff4-dev beyond the libraries I had already.   Regrettably,  I don't yet know how to make debian packages.

Unfortunately I don't even know how to do what you did. 

So if you have to re-install #!, you have to go through that process again?

I prefer AbiWord myself . . . light and simple to use.  I don't do a lot of Word Processor stuff.

My all-time favorite WP program is:  Jarte  >  http://www.jarte.com/

Unfortunately, it is a MS Windows only program, at the moment ... I'm waiting for the Jarte Devs to make a Linux version.

That looks like it would be very nice.

BOY OH BOY!!  Do I relate to that 

+1

merelyjim wrote:

And, yes, I DO still have the original CD!

Damn it, now I have to know if mine is lying around here somewhere as well

RE:  StarOffice 5

I just got home fr0om downtown.  As I was passing a "used a bit bookshop" I saw a pile of computer books near the enterance and on top of the pile, used, old, dusty for 30 pesos: StarOffice 5 for Linux (in Spanish).  Just though I would let you all know.

anonymous wrote:

...if you just want spreadsheets, why not try Gnumeric?

I tried. I really did. The one thing I couldn't get used to, no matter what, was the cross-hairs instead of a regular mouse cursor. I'd be moving along at my normal pace, and found that I had input data into the wrong cell because I hadn't clicked into the place where I thought the indicator was.
I know it sounds silly, but if it slows you down when you need to be working... And now that I'm thinking about it, when I have some spare time on my hands, I suppose I should go check if I can change that in the settings.

I don't think it's a viabe thing, unless you want to get further under the hood.

http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/doc/ … ouse.shtml

Istvan wrote:

Sector11 wrote:

I have even looked at Ted, but never installed it, if they had a 64-bit deb I would have. 

Ted is a small, but neat rich-text editor with basic formatting tools. One of my favorites. I use it for  editing jobs, when no heavy  formatting is needed. Its even lighter then Abiword. You should try it ...
Khmmm... really no 64-bit package  :-(

Yea, if some knows how to make a Debian DEB package makes a 64-bit version I'd jump on it.

Or - maybe I'll try someday - what's the worse I could do? {click}
hello! anyone there?
honey, where's the flashlight?

If I only had a 64-bit desktop, I'd make a package from the sources....:-( But I run only 32-bit boxes. Perhaps is someone out there ....:-)