From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 23:56:11 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 0F393106564A for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:56:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A29818FC19 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5697 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2010 23:56:09 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=D3QmlYmirVlNVNzDCcCyA1NtexABnBsqpMS2/kwkNLSyowkfzZnTuKd3FCJQDRI+sXzMLNk8ESSmAmD2cvJ8H4peEArD4m5cHVyjMRUiDVNUnyfuhLo6GkvaxvX4GZlQeboTc0qH/MMISWDC9XWPqXK6KroJPwjMVhBtaF7hAO8= ; Received: from napoleon.localnet (mike.jeays@99.224.61.141 with plain) by smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 06 Jun 2010 16:56:09 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: N82WFx6swBBjwcHWPFR2CGt6udzA8RPrA.xm0enFFXaK2g-- X-YMail-OSG: tLUlZdEVM1ndjPpDWcAQOCD5wXRjSjMDQ.yGFRx6xocPAleErjXp_X2ubj5WD3mn4z6ABhZk_skPKTBeTBRYPSPpDEMkN_75wR.GPlP2v5BWaZJJa2eD7BkSuK7DNbKnwbkndDTq65Hh7Mvg3SO2BL0qWOSEfefFwWbnmeLm1ZK_9dYWakST._fiLbsCZVEsgwx81dcjIo_PwzPewvh3Fr6ziXJMbIrNgz_vVm6h3ULvN4m9kzMa0XgN1.0IYWS1CaQtKnrY.P74DfyaxOIXn3uzhutDm9pxWxHv5FKy8RcxAbIhEgyIf7DAjFgp0i26_Qg4wP8IIj2.1Jv4bFrP4OBdzLnB9oYmHNnOlvmd_wfJ22q5tUgMAtuvGCj.2r_epGJz X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 19:56:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-15-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) References: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201006061956.07918.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:56:11 -0000 On June 6, 2010 04:34:16 pm 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. > > 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. Gnumeric provides a good spreadsheet, although it does need X11. It supports charting, with a good variety of options. It installed very quickly on a Linux system, seems much "lighter" than OpenOffice Calc, and it starts much more quickly than Calc. "pkg_add -r gnumeric" should install it for you.