Office Archive

Gnumeric 1.4.0 Released; AbiWord 2.2.0 Almost Here

Submitted by a friend on IM 2004-11-29 Office 34 Comments

Gnumeric is intended to be a drop in replacement for proprietary spreadsheets. It imports your existing Excel, 1-2-3, Applix, Sylk, XBase Quattro Pro, Dif, Plan Perfect, and Oleo files among others. The latest version 1.4.0 brings some major new features including:

OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 Released with KDE/GNOME Support

Submitted by two people 2004-11-26 Office 42 Comments

Novell hacker Jan Holesovsky has announced a build of OpenOffice.org that has both KDE and GNOME support. When launched within KDE, KDE support is activated, similarly when launched within GNOME, GNOME support is activated. Jan's next project will be to plan for OOo 2.0.

Reading Suggestions for the Weekend

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-30 Office 15 Comments

We've put together a short list of tech books that could keep you company this weekend.

Review: Moving to the Linux Business Desktop By Marcel Gagné

Guest post by Will Senn 2004-10-13 Office 21 Comments

This is Marcel Gagné's third book with Addison-Wesley following, Linux System Administration: A User's Guide and Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!. Marcel is also the well-respected author of Linux Journal's, Cooking with Linux. The author has written this excellent book with near-perfect timing.

OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse–but for whom?

Eugenia Loli 2004-09-22 Office 37 Comments

The Internet went all abuzz last week when a report by Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer posited that Microsoft was keeping open its legal options against licensees of OpenOffice.org. Commonly known as OpenOffice, the software is a freely downloadable open source productivity suite that constitutes a significant portion of Sun's commercially offered StarOffice. It also exemplifies the threat that the open-source movement poses to Microsoft.

KOffice 1.3.3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-09-19 Office 10 Comments

The KOffice team released the third bugfix package that builds upon the previous 1.3.x versions, with many fixes, mainly in the core libraries and in some filters.

Text Formatting with OpenOffice.org Writer

Guest post by Christian Paratschek 2004-09-10 Office 71 Comments

Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. I merely wanted to show that OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more.

Security Is Focus of Office 2003 SP1

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-27 Office 13 Comments

While the just-released first service pack for Microsoft's Office 2003 primarily rounds up security and bug fixes, it also enhances features in the 2003 versions of OneNote and InfoPath.

Review: Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period

Guest post by Will Senn 2004-07-26 Office 12 Comments

When I was first asked to review this book, I was somewhat taken aback by the title. I wondered if it could be construed as blasphemous. The dictionary came to my rescue with this definition: damn, adj., beyond doubt or question.

Professional DTP on Linux with PageStream 5.x

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-25 Office 20 Comments

Along with the capable Scribus and the advancing Passepartout, GrassHoper LLC has released PageStream 5.0.1 for Linux (using GTK+: screenshot) along with many other platforms including AmigaOS, Windows, MorphOS and a pending Mac OS X version. For what's new on 5.x of this legendary DTP system (out and about since 1986 for AtariST), check here.

Quick Book Review: Learning Python

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-22 Office 42 Comments

"Learning Python, Second Edition" was published only a few months ago by O'Reilly. We take a quick look at this promising book.

Book Review: Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager

Guest post by Can Sar 2004-06-30 Office 10 Comments

Virtual memory is one of the most important subsystems of any modern operating system. Virtual memory is deeply intertwined with user processes, protection between processes and protection of the kernel from user processes, efficient shared memory, communication with IO (DMA, etc.), paging, swapping, and countless other systems. Understanding the VM subsystem greatly helps understanding how all other parts of the kernel work and interact. Because of this "Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager" is a great guide in better understanding and working with the entire kernel.

OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 Released

Submitted by JiB 2004-06-20 Office 64 Comments

OpenOffice.org announced the release of the 1.1.2 version which introduces the FontOOo Autopilot (downloads and installs fonts from various sources). In addition, this release provides improved support for dBase database files, additional language support, and improved XML export facilities.

Building a Wired Home, Part 2

David Adams 2004-06-17 Office 14 Comments

The second in an ongoing series of articles about expanding the realm of your computing environment to encompass your whole home, this article covers my experience becoming a certified Home Technology Integrator. Though the internet is a great source of information for nearly every aspect of home automation, there's no substitute for a little formal education.

EIOffice: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-02 Office 14 Comments

Nicholas Petreley takes a spin at the Java-based EIOffice office suite. I also tried this software 2-3 weeks ago but it has ugly dependencies in regards to its installation routine:

EIOffice 2004 Vs MS Office 2003

Submitted by Gsurface 2004-05-27 Office 36 Comments

Designed to compete against MS Office, EIOffice 2004 is coded in Java therefore able to run on both Windows and Linux. EIOffice 2004 offers features which should get a few users' attention, but does it have enough to have people switching from MS Office? Flexbeta has the review.

Group-Office 2.2 Pro Review

Guest post by Bob Minvielle 2004-05-17 Office 29 Comments

The world has changed due to the humble (and sometimes not so humble) creations in the past. It can be argued that NCSA Mosaic changed the world. Some would argue that it was actually Netscape, but whatever the actual case may be, the web browser has in some way changed the way we look at electronic information.

MS Word Vs OOo Writer: A Word of Difference

Submitted by R. Kirk McPike 2004-05-05 Office 94 Comments

R. Kirk McPike wrote a comparison between Microsoft's Word and OpenOffice.org Writer based on his experience writing a term paper. It's an attempt to consider the end usability of both products, and how OpenOffice.org's challenge should be responded to by Microsoft.

KOffice 1.3.1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Office 11 Comments

The KOffice team is proud to announce the first bugfix version in KOffice 1.3 series.

The Return of WordPerfect?

Submitted by Jem Matzan 2004-04-28 Office 41 Comments

Here's a review of Corel's new WordPerfect products: WordPerfect Office 12 for Windows, and WordPerfect for Linux. The latter is an improvement on their previous WP for Linux products that were discontinued some time ago. Could this be the start of big-name proprietary software for GNU/Linux?