From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 04:22:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64E91065677 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 04:22:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xkyanh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CDE8FC21 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 04:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvh11 with SMTP id 11so1669965pvh.13 for ; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:22:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization:user-agent :x-operating-system:x-face:face:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=j3xvdUJ97CEqN8HLgWOzCexpXooYftzKcTYvfjdYk2U=; b=RcbrxfE5y8mpyIAUhpiJEI7A/p5Pw+nF8jhgbHmNQvgJgsuwNwpA54Q1AXl0Plpt2x Qc25YRprbnNPZHXvDco08/BXgzFM/+AVLdkk1u77pz4viFjFa86p9I7MHARBKi4zYJz9 iYSx2cGriXg/9trweqGiOf4qqXZvtp6CoPW9c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:user-agent:x-operating-system:x-face:face:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D+FdJ8ibsduxxeiIqs/0nDqztOQdIzCjb0JvCaKLtcQG4hJj1+x8tY66caKtW9ktJC MgG94EEgROfMOCDjytl1/Uv/NQdnIcFaZYsgenKvgcBszTs3LE2LFv+BtgUKKHYDUIhZ i9eEuOl/N7t78F7AoQB+YzJhd3RT3uI46dFhk= Received: by 10.140.55.15 with SMTP id d15mr10810343rva.58.1275884538422; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from icy.localdomain ([115.78.0.218]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b2sm4365278rvn.7.2010.06.06.21.22.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:21:50 +0700 From: "Anh Ky Huynh" To: Chip Camden Message-ID: <20100607112150.6824a94f@icy.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> References: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Organization: Vietnamese TeX Users Group User-Agent: FreeBSD X-Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Face: FreeBSD Face: FreeBSD X-Mailer: FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: office apps X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:22:20 -0000 On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700 Chip Camden wrote: > This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please > slap me over to the right one. > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? > OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a > spreadsheet. There are some tips to speed up your Ooo. But if your Ooo took minute to start, I guess that your system has a low hardware? For short/unstructure documents, I suggest you to use Ooo (it slows but you can type the document quickly:D) For long/structure documents, LaTeX is a good choice. It is said that ConTeXt is good replacement of LaTeX but I have never tried it. > Short of the full suite, how about just a spreadsheet program that > supports complex formulas and charting? If it could also be used > without X11 when charting isn't needed, that would make my day. Have you ever tried Google Spreadsheet or something like that? -- Anh Ky Huynh