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Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ willhill wrote: > Open Office is better than Office but both are quirky and I would not use > either for a big job. For quick one or two page papers with graphics, Open > Office does the job on GNU/Linux with less hardware than a comparable > Microsoft system. I miss Word Perfect, which was easier and more reliable > than either. My preference is for KWord, which is also quirky but very light > and easy to use. The quirks I've run into are related to SVG and KFormula > and might have some teething issues with ODF. For my thesis, I'm using > Kile/Latex and it's saving me all sorts of formating headaches. For business > use, Open Office is more than adequate. > > The problem is that Microsoft has introduced yet another format that no one > else can read. The new Office uses this format as it's default and they have > made it difficult to find the "save as" button or to see what kind of > document you have saved. People who don't have someone managing these > settings for them are going to have problems right away. Users of older > versions of Office and Open Office are going to have problems if the new > Office takes off. > > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:48 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> I'm curious what you guys think about OpenOffice vs. Office and even vs. >> Google Office. >> >> http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/16/who-uses-openoffice/ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
