On Wednesday 19 September 2007 16:43, xcalibre wrote:
> Well IBM has just released an Office Suite FREE to all supporting Linux and
> Windoze... The Lotus Symphony Office Suite... How ever the requirements are
> absolutely Nutz...
>
> * Supported Windows platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
> * Supported Linux platforms: SLED 10, RHEL 5, Redhat5
> * 900MB disk space minimum
> * 1GB RAM memory minimum
> * US English locale
>
> The think is many people still don't even run 512 megs of ram... To say 1
> GIG Minimum is beyond belief...
>
> They should simply release Lotus Smart Suite and let that develop as it's
> been around and it's not that hard on resources as this...
>
> Hopefully everyone will stop worrying about fancy looking GUI and just make
> the application work and keep it simple!!!
>
> Guess we will have to wait and see how this develops...
>
> Bill Preece...
>
Back in the Red Hat 6 days I had a Linux copy of this which unfortunately is
still here someplace on CD which thank goodness is not in my computer.
If they are re-releasing it I hope they updated it. If not Open Office is
definitely better as the old Star Office was better.
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