On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:29:58AM +1000, Rosemary Gibson wrote:
> I would appreciate some clarification on different things i have read
>
> 1. Gnumeric is a free spreadsheet program that is part of the
> GNOME desktop and has Windows installers available. Could you
> explain to me what has windows installers available means.
a) There is a version of gnumeric that runs (with some known
printing problems) under current versions of MS Windows.
b) There are downloadable executables (.exe) that will install (1)
See www.gnumeric.org for details.
> 2. The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without
> emulation;
> For Windows this response was partial.
> Partial: indicates that while the office suite works, it lacks important
> functionality compared to versions for other OSs; it is still being developed
> however.
My best guess would be the print preview problem that is windows
specific. The only other major outstanding windows bug report is
that context sensitive help is not properly connected.
> 3. Even though gnome/gnumeric runs on all platforms what is the
> minimum OS Requirements/Specifications.
>
> I am running Windows XP SP1
Gnumeric is not directly tied to a minimum version of windows.
However, it depends on Gtk+, which has issues on win95 and older.
Hope that helps
Jody
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