[Gllug] Office software

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Nov 16 12:48:10 UTC 2001


On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:55:27AM -0000, Jake Jellinek wrote:
> Open office is indeed at the moment probably as bloated and memory hungry 
> as MS Office, and to get it to work I've had to install the entire thing 
> within each users directory (not as root at all)

You can do a shared installation but it isn't well documented.

> I suspect MS are probably already working on a version of Office which will 
> run under Linux

There is a rumour that they already have.  But they would only release
it if they had lost the desktop.


-- 
Bruce

I see a mouse.  Where?  There, on the stair.  And its clumsy wooden
footwear makes it easy to trap and kill.  -- Harry Hill
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