[Gllug] Apple

[Simon Faulkner]

Tethys wrote:

> Stephen Harker writes:
> 
> 
>>>Probably, once you install an X server. I don't think there's yet a native
>>>OO.o for OS X. But I'd recommend you look at Abiword and Gnumeric instead.
>>>Both have (IMHO) better long term potential than OO.o.
>>
>>Why? Just curious :)
> 
> 
> Because OO.o is a bloated pig. It's trying too hard to be MS Office,
> and has gone too far down that road to be salvagable IMHO. If nothing
> else, compare launch times. On my machine, with cold cache:
> 
> 	abiword:   sub 1 second
> 	gnumeric:  2 seconds
> 	oowriter:  13 seconds
> 	oocalc:    13 seconds
> 
> Both abiword and gnumeric have come on leaps and bounds in recent months,
> and the latest versions of each are great products. Don't be put off by
> the halfway functional and buggy versions shipped with most distributions.
> 
> Tet
But OO looks and feels the same in Windows and Linux so it makes it easy 
to gently move customers over...

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