Hi,
I'm using FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE with fluxbox as wm. Now I'm looking for a good word processor and a spreadsheet application. Which programs do you prefer? Should I install the huge OpenOffice suite or should I better go with gnumeric, abiword? The most important aspect for me is that it should run stable. I don't need that much features (a very old M$ Excel and Word would suffice). Currently I hesitate to install any of these monsters because of their dependencies and long build times. I only install from ports. Installing/compiling once is not the problem, but as I try to keep my system and all ports up-to-date, it would be annoying to recompile OpenOffice all the time because of an update of one library it depends on...
Whats your opinion? Or what do you use on your FreeBSD desktop?
cheers,
honk
I'm using FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE with fluxbox as wm. Now I'm looking for a good word processor and a spreadsheet application. Which programs do you prefer? Should I install the huge OpenOffice suite or should I better go with gnumeric, abiword? The most important aspect for me is that it should run stable. I don't need that much features (a very old M$ Excel and Word would suffice). Currently I hesitate to install any of these monsters because of their dependencies and long build times. I only install from ports. Installing/compiling once is not the problem, but as I try to keep my system and all ports up-to-date, it would be annoying to recompile OpenOffice all the time because of an update of one library it depends on...
Whats your opinion? Or what do you use on your FreeBSD desktop?
cheers,
honk