Baslinux mailing list

["Matt Smed" <smedboy AT telus.net>]

Hello Everyone,

Regarding office suites...

I have not tried Siag Office, but I am curious at what (if any) office
suite people would recommend for BL users?

I currently have AbiWord and XSpread working on my (486 8mb ram) laptop,
but, although Abiword is easy to use, I cannot figure out Xspread.  It
would also be nice to have a lightweight X based email client for BL2.1
as well. I cannot get Sylpheed to install for some reason, either.

Should I just stick with the non-X applications?  In time, I could
probably figure out how to use the included "mail" and "links" programs,
and most X applications are slower on my machine anyways (although
"dillo" is fast).

What would anyone recommend?  I am also thinking of upgrading my ram to
20MB from 8MB -- will this make X run a lot faster?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org
Sent: September 7, 2003 11:12 PM
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] Office Suite

Diego Barizo wrote:
>
> I've found a very small ( 1,5 Mb download/ 5 Mb installed) 
> office suite, called Siag
> It needs a widgets library (another Mb) called Mowitz. But 
> this one comes only as source, and I don't have HD space 
> to do the compilation.
> If anybody can....

A pre-compiled package for Siag Office is already available 
for BL2.  It is in the xap directory at the DeliLinux site
(which you will find on the "Where to get add-ons" page).

I have tried Siag Office, but I do not recommend it.  

Cheers,
Steven
_______________________________________________
BasLinux mailing list
BasLinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/baslinux