Subj : Re: Linux Office Suite
To   : apam
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Jun 26 2022 22:26:18

 ap>  de> OpenOffice is what LibreOffice forked from (IIRC). I did many a
 ap> 
 ap> Yep that's right, before open office it was called star office and was
 ap> open sourced by Sun, I forget who they bought it off. It's come a long
 ap> way since then. I remember how it was all sort of contained in one
 ap> program, rather than split off into several programs like writer
 ap> spreadsheets etc, really didn't like that much.
 ap> 
 ap> Andrew
 ap> 

I remember StarOffice was really slow, took ages to load.  When you started it, it was a GUI within a window, and with its own 'start' menu like thing that you would use to start the sub-program.  One giant program which was its own desktop environment with the office programs within.

OpenOffice was a welcome change, must faster and each program (writer, calc, etc), finally separate.

But I prefer to just use plaintext now, or groff or latex for formatted documents mostly.  Only occasionally have use for Calc when needing to make data into a spreadsheet format others need to open.

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