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[SOLVED]Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice

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[SOLVED]Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice

Postby brjoon1021 » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:26 pm

It is faster, better, etc... More in line with the ideals of Ultimate (even though this is not exactly a stodgy office distribution).

http://go-oo.org/

In the downloads section they mention that ubuntu already has openoffice in their repositories. This is kind of a weird and confusing statement seeing that go-oo is offered as a BETTER tweak of openoffice. So, some people think that the ubuntu version IS go-oo rather than the Sun vanilla version. Does anyone know ? I switched from OO to go-oo on my windows laptop and was pretty surprised how much snappier it was. OO can be pretty slow, this tweaked version was nice.

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Re: Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice...better...

Postby Baphomet » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:31 pm

brjoon1021 wrote:It is faster, better, etc... More in line with the ideals of Ultimate (even though this is not exactly a stodgy office distribution).

Looks nice. I'd try it, but compiling sucks.
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Re: Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice...better...

Postby vinca » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:53 pm

Baphomet wrote:
brjoon1021 wrote:It is faster, better, etc... More in line with the ideals of Ultimate (even though this is not exactly a stodgy office distribution).

Looks nice. I'd try it, but compiling sucks.

lol the usplash :lol: but you might want to alien one of these pacages http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-i586/2.4.1/ :D
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Re: Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice...better...

Postby DaddyX3 » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:57 pm

If your into office applications, IMO - no one can beat M$ in this catagory. Buy youself Office and install under WINE. I'm not a big M$ fan, but when it comes to office applications, you can not deny how great of products they put together.

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Re: Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice...better...

Postby Baphomet » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:32 pm

vinca wrote:... but you might want to alien one of these packages http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-i586/2.4.1/

:roll: Or... Not.

How hard is it to make it easy for potential end users? dot-deb, dot-yum it, dot-rpm it and you're covered.

I don't feel like jumping through hoops for something that might prove marginally better than something I already have. You want me to test drive it, don't complicate matters. Pull up in my driveway, hand me the keys, open the door and remind me to take it easy on the high-banked curves.

And I don't mean "you" personally... I mean the dev's. Just so we're clear.
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Re: Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice...better...

Postby pch.shot » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:15 pm

To DaddyX: Excel is the only thing MS ever made, and I mean only that actually works as it should and is useful at home. Word stinks(far more complicated than it needs to be-only good for making labels-rather use Abiword anyday). Have you ever actually used Access or Powerpoint or Outlook Express for anything useful. I know I have not.Who on earth would want MS office on their home computer except to open up documents that the ignorant still use. Except for work(And you are forced to use MS office there), the only MS office I have ever used at home is Excel(It's a great calculator to add up your next computer purchase) . Actually, I still use notepad. That at least is straight forward and does what it's supposed to do more or less. I can't wait for the day that I don't see a bullet on a document or some silly font you can't read without a magnifying glass. pch
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Re: Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice...better...

Postby Baphomet » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:27 pm

pch.shot wrote:Excel is the only thing MS ever made, and I mean only that actually works as it should and is useful at home.

I live and die by Excel at my office from abusing it for tables in Word documents (because Word tables are about the most archaic computer desktop publishing experience you can sit through (many a time I have asked myself if slitting my wrists wouldn't be easier... Ahhhh... Sweet death)). There really is nothing that compares even if generating charts and graphs needs a complete and total overhaul (see Word Tables, above). For word processing, I don't much care but yeah, Abi is pretty much the s--t in my book as well. Word I use because it's ubiquitous in the corporate world. Like so many MS products, Office hit it's peak right around Office 2003/Office XP and has been in rapid decline ever since with more and more "bloat", and revamped GUI's that are, amazingly, managing to get even LESS intuitive than before, because Microsoft can't seem to stop f--king with a good thing. The switch over to Office 2009 (or whatever it's called) is still reeking havoc on my campus when people send documents in the new, default, non-backwards compatible (without the conversion utility) .docx format.

Wow... Now THAT'S some forward thinking right there.
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Re: Condider Go-oo instead of vanilla OpenOffice...better...

Postby DaddyX3 » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:52 pm

I do use Microsoft Office 2003 at work as well. My job revolves around it. I even use it on my phone. I have excell calculators and workbooks setup for construction bidding and documentation. So using O.O. just kind of pisses me off. A simple Quotation form that my secretary uses, cant even be layed out correctly in O.O. (I'm sure this might be solvable but not outta da box). I am a pretty big Excell user myself. I like it. Sorry to disappoint folks :?

EDIT/ UPDATE: I did some more research into Go-oo and it is the exact same OO that Ubuntu currently has on their server and is what Ubuntu comes with stock. This is the reason that in the Go-oo site it has a apt-get command that is what is already installed. Does this make since to ya? I know, confusing ... the Go-oo site leads you to believe that it is (and I quote) "faster than the upstream OO", but the reality of it is that Ubuntu saw this and implimented it to their distro ... hoooray!! Thanks for your suggestions!
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