[ale] GNOME Journal article: The Liberal Arts Major Test

[David Muse]

I remember reading an article once where Gnumeric was once touted as
being matched with Excel, feature-for-feature.  I used it exclusively
until OpenOffice started being included in Linux distributions.  It
seemed to be at least as good as OpenOffice Calc, I only switched out
of laziness.  I wasn't exactly a power user though so I'm not certain
whether it's really better than OO's spreadsheet or not.  You may want
to give it a try though.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

David Muse
david.muse at firstworks.com


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:24:31 +0000
aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:

> 
> Good link and article. Thanks for noting it.
> 
> From experiences setting up my daughter with Mandrake, I think the
> "average" high school and early college students are our best target
> demographic for switching to Linux.  At that stage of growing we are
> all more open minded, receptive to change and more likely to
> appreciate the advantages in system control, customization and
> flexibility that Linux offers. The main hard to switch exceptions are
> specialty app fans like hard core computer gamers who demand the
> latest releases and drivers for the bleeding edge hardware.
> 
> After her first semester at college, my daughter is still very happy
> with her Mandrake box and the Linux / OSS apps, and is accepting of
> the fact that her sometimes her system won't  support the same things
> that the latest Main$tream, commercial supported systems do.
> 
> Her biggest complaint is not finding a spread sheet as complete and
> well designed as M$ ex-hell.  She uses Open Office for other apps, but
> is not happy with the spread sheet area.
> 
> Anyone know of Linux based Spread Sheet alternatives that honestly
> meet or surpass the M$ ex-hell offering?
> 
> peace
> aaron
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:57, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> > Not sure how many keep up with GNOME Journal, but this was an
> > interesting piece that made it to Slashdot:
> > 
> > The Liberal Arts Major Test
> > http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/13/the-liberal-arts-major-test
> > 
> > This guy apparently installed Debian sid on a scrapper of an x86 PC
> > and showed his friend the basics and left her to it - 2 years ago. 
> > The title plays off of those Grandmother Tests that kept popping up
> > when Linux on the desktop first became a hot topic.
> > 
> > --
> > Barry Hawkins
> > All Things Computed
> > site: www.alltc.com
> > weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
> > 
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