From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPKe6-00025F-BF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:25:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA26A1C33C; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8FD1C33C for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so16622wyi.40 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 13:20:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=I1cvL04T+cqzCSSXBvWpXsX09Mx/mTTvMJLpbMsYXKw=; b=qKbLeQIHeqzp7weLc4UD8ik5UvxyEPxbA5Kx32UdqUidHan3ldVCByqTVGm1Kbsbx5 +2wDBdfl8CHasKpc5VhBVi9CMNuUjqEJXcl0o3C3RZy6LJP+wJNXEsJBXSbFwiFPfUnH ywfIlQ7dAimFrkMoQlReszKSDXnEKDn2426as= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=jr8k81EdzZPoq6no55XIGOooDEG9uwPEiwyGhFpbawQinkdcjjsaEB90sueafGKiZC 50hdYAMcf3sxgsCFw5ot5StKenwFWyLl0dQMTbqj9CIncurwwVrSPVMzweZW9UwUN6zk fo6maiIBzSh27phL5LOGEA9wu4Mlupisdc3YA= Received: by 10.216.159.75 with SMTP id r53mr4753910wek.98.1306354848819; Wed, 25 May 2011 13:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e75sm508801wes.25.2011.05.25.13.20.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 May 2011 13:20:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] office softs Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:20:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Paul Hartman References: <201105252131.29898.stephane@22decembre.eu> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201105252220.00411.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 097d0a8fc30286b35fa55ac876266d1d Apparently, though unproven, at 22:07 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Paul Hart= man=20 did opine thusly: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:31 PM, St=E9phane Guedon =20 wrote: > > Hello > >=20 > > Some of you tried both LibreOffice / OpenOffice / Calligra recently ? > >=20 > > What do you think of them ? Which is stable / not yet fully finish ? = ... >=20 > They are both very mature and stable and should be able to do almost > anything you need, as long as that need is not 100% MS-compatibility. > ;) LibreOffice comes with a huge benefit - I do not have to see the Oracle l= ogo=20 on the splash screen. That alone was enough to make me switch. Other than that, I reckon they are mostly on par with each other for the=20 average user. According to some recent blogs I scanned over, LibreOffice = ships=20 with more templates or makes the process easier. I can see how many peopl= e=20 would like that a lot. --=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com