Re: AbiWord, Gnumeric

[EAMorical@aol.com]

Micah writes:

>Has anyone looked at AbiSource's site?  http://www.abisource.com

Yes.

>They're attempting to make an open source office suite portable across
>'Doze and UNIX/GTK+.  They currently have a pre-pre-alpha (and that's
>pushing it) version of AbiWord.

>I tried it yesterday.  It compiles OK but coredumps often.  Basic
>editing functionality is there, and you can change the formatting of
>text.

>I'm not quite sure where they're getting their money, but I certainly
>wish them the best of luck.  This might be a project worth contributing
>to.  I'll at least follow their progress over the next couple months.

I thought about it until I learned KDE and presumably GNOME are
proceeding with similar projects. At least it's worth following.

>And has anyone tried Gnumeric?  I haven't tried it yet - I don't have
>GNOME installed.  But it sounds like they're making progress, so I might
>give it a shot.

>I also tried KOffice but couldn't get it compiled.  I think it might be
>a Corba problem, but Corba seemed OK the first time I compiled it.  I
>might look at it more later.

I have seen people here talking about KDE and GNOME, but no mention
of 'Berlin'. I realize it's further into the future, but I would be interested
in
any comments. Also there was a GPL CAD project called 'Open Designer'
(http://www.fpa-engineers.com/OD/). However there appears to be no
current activity.

Bob