Re: Spreadsheet application for CentOS 4.3

Haha, well, yeah I never thought I'd really need any spreadsheet 
software, until I got my (don't laugh) Amateur Radio license.  It will 
be handy to keep track of who I'm talking to, as well as what 
frequencies I'll be needing when traveling.

Clay

[email protected] wrote:
>  Hmm. Didn't know people actually used those.  I always thought
> spreadsheets were like parsley on a dinner plate.
> 
>  Matt:  Still interested in that board, but after a series of $225
> paychecks I'm starting to starve a little.
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Clay Carley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running a Digital Personal Workstation 433, running CentOS 4.3.  I
>>> love
>>> the system, however I need at least a spreadsheet application, if not an
>>> entire office suite.
>>>
>>> OpenOffice.org is pretty much failing to compile.  Either it reports
>>> code
>>> errors, or occasionally it has issues writing to disc (seems to be a
>>> software issue, as I exer'd my drives, and they are fine).
>>>
>>> KOffice does not compile either, and I haven't been able to find an old
>>> version of Star Office.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions?  I'm also open to running a different
>>> OS,
>>> although I am partial to RedHat based systems.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Clay Carley
>> Just checked. We're apparently still supporting Gnumeric [1] in Gentoo.
>>
>> Gentoo is going to have the most up-to-date software for alpha in any
>> case, but it's probably going to be less fun installing. Raul Porcel
>> runs a tinderbox to check for potential problems and it caches the
>> built packages here [2] so you could probably speed up the
>> installation a lot by telling Portage to use these binary packages.
>>
>> We're in #alpha and #gentoo-alpha on irc.freenode.net and would love
>> to have you there too (and would be glad to help).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>> [1] http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
>> [2] http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/alpha/
>>
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