Thinkfree Office on Linux

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 8 13:21:29 UTC 2004


On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 05:49:58PM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> I have 2 cds of it, and in addition I have StarOffice. TFO was half the price 
> of
> StarOffice, and I thought I would give it a try. It seems to work fine on
> Windows, and is less Java-dependent, so that it runs faster than StarOffice. 
> And
> like SO, a big selling point is said to be its compatability with MS Office
> docs.

Well I don't know about staroffice, but openoffice on Debian at least
appears to have no java in it as far as I can tell, since there aren't
really any free java implementations around, so they compile it with the
java features turned off.  Runs rather well too.

Lennart Sorensen
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