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 1QPLKS-0007Jh-3n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:09:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A51821C436; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:05:30 +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 533DD1C446 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so53622wyi.40 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 14:05:29 -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:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=BeLRfSFtGRw0t/cHpzrRrih0JbMYJoKBUCqYkLM77+w=; b=Kt4yV4oHwn0qyBNwNIuTPbDEEfNMO7sHnzdM7ZaI+uX4iDUHFpw+I4nQP6Nv7VoPtu Sx1KZlHyw+FS+zcZTCXiU3fVLIetTcxn4/aKiTr3cPd1z7oB+HgBmtPL4KbwqZD5qI6+ x/pok0trUzkffVCznp3xPi97A3z9OKndClTh8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=DtnYy8gmrPGcWvc/ckAxLISaMPQYRYAiat03xywmRIJ3NlJn3cLOT2O/pER+RvPcUg 5tEo7i/FZ9D6B9UWP0oGZq+AczzPPgvCtSD/dm/uGhIN8EEBHJ1/6G8g75vWNZ4qKsGv yJq1oY7Hjw/a3BZbQgOby1D1gdlK2Ujgpm0OI= Received: by 10.217.5.209 with SMTP id w59mr51901wes.17.1306357529301; Wed, 25 May 2011 14:05:29 -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 w10sm11876weq.27.2011.05.25.14.05.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 May 2011 14:05:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] office softs Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 23:04:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201105252131.29898.stephane@22decembre.eu> <201105252228.40464.stephane@22decembre.eu> In-Reply-To: <201105252228.40464.stephane@22decembre.eu> 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="utf-8" Message-Id: <201105252304.40167.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f2f7ff7b6c26a34f4d4932a49e5390bc Apparently, though unproven, at 22:28 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, St=C3=A9p= hane=20 Guedon did opine thusly: > On Wednesday 25 May 2011 22:07:15 Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:31 PM, St=C3=A9phane 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. > > ;) >=20 > I need a small MS-compatibility, as anyone I think. >=20 > I wonder if calligra is mature enough to be used (cause openoffice not > fully integrated with my desktop environnement). >=20 > Openoffice/Libreoffice... =3D> which to choose ? >=20 > Openoffice is heavy whereas I think calligra light, thus, easier to upd= ate, > but is calligra solid enough ? Calligra is pretty OK. As a comparison, I'd say it's comparable quality-w= ise=20 to ~amd64 meaning it should work just fine and as a Gentoo user you ought= to=20 be able to deal with issues where it isn't. But you are asking the wrong question - you want "MS-compatibility" but d= on't=20 say what that means. Keep in mind that Office is not even compatible with= =20 itself between versions. What exactly are your needs?=20 100% complete compatibility of all Office features requires Office. If you don't need 100% but do need something pretty damn close, OOo is yo= u're=20 first choice. If you just want to be able to read the text of .docs and .= docxs=20 and to hell with the formatting, then KWord or Words should be fine. It's a very complex question with no easy answer, and only you can tell. = I say=20 install KOffice and give it a test drive, see for yourself. Rest assured = it=20 won't eat your kittens when you run it. --=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com