Weekend Reads: Office Suites, Command Line Applications and ioQuake 3
August 9, 2009 by Clair Ching
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Eleven is Louder summarizes what office suites are available for us that are open souce software. Of course it has OpenOffice.org in the list. However, it reminds us that Lotus Symphony does exist and that there are other suites like the GNOME Office Suite as well as the KDE Office Suite. I’ve tried using the GNOME Office Suite before but for the sake of compatibility I am using OpenOffice.org especially because I have to collaborate with co-workers on documents. I know that OpenOffice.org is commonly included in various Linux distributions and this blog entry shows you that you have options. No need to feel stuck. Some people think that OpenOffice.org is way too clunky and annoying so other choices could possibly be better for them.
Another blog entry from Eleven is Louder is all about Command-Line Applications and it has an interesting list. It includes the following and more:
- rtorrent – for torrent downloads
- cdrtools – for burning CDs
- cdparanoia – a CD ripper
- oleo – a spreadsheet application (I am really amazed that there is one on the command line!)
- zgv – a picture viewer with good svga support
- hnb – a hierarchical notebook
The last read of the day comes from Tux Arena which talks about the complete guide to configure and customize ioQuake 3 in Linux. For those of you who love first person shooter games, this could be interesting to check out. I was never really into first person shooter games on the computer because I get dizzy just by looking at the screen. Those of you who are fans will appreciate this guide because it has the details on what to do so you could have new maps, weapons, character models, etc. This particular article has screenshots included for better visualization.
I hope you would enjoy these reads!
