Office Suites for your Ubuntu
November 2, 2007 by Jerome Locson
Filed under Computers
Earlier yesterday, my harddisk gave up. It is not detected by the system, even reformatting and new OS installation won’t do the failure recovery.
Luckily, I have this Ubuntu Live CD which I got from a friend last year. I did not used it since but I am now giving it a try. Doing my documents is already my daily tasks, I usually do that with MS Office. With Ubuntu here, I have no choice but to go with OpenOffice.org. It is installed by default in the Ubuntu package. It is also the widely used opensource office suites for both Windows and Linux.
After a day with the Ubuntu environment, I feel comfortable now working with this (except for the screen resolution, I can’t get 1028px), I am planning to have a dualboot in my new system — XP and Ubuntu.
I came to think of what other office suites I could install with Ubuntu other than OpenOffice. I found this two:
- Gnome Office – GNOME Office empowers you with three “best in class” productivity applications available as GNU Free Software. The times of wrestling with file formats, compatibility, and ‘halfway-there’ features is over. The AbiWord word processor, Gnumeric spreadsheet, and Gnome-DB data access components allow you to get it done now.
- KOffice – Integrated Office Suite
KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for KDE, the K Desktop Environment.
AbiWord and Gnumeric are two great office applications as well. Particularly, they are very light on the computer resources and can run well on hardware with limited memory or quick and snappy on modern hardware.
They come preloaded (together with Openoffice.org) if you try the new easy-to-install Debian Linux..