The main thing that has kept me from OpenOffice is the absence of a spell 
checker.  I really need one!

Knowing Linux though, there is probably a spell checker that can be "bolted" 
onto it somehow but I have not investigated.

Alan

On Thursday 20 September 2001 05:44 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Rick Rosinski wrote:
> > Before I go and download OpenOffice, is it any better than StarOffice
> > 5.2? What are the benefits, if any, over StarOffice?
>
> It is smaller and doesn't take over the desk top like StarOffice... it is
> still in development though and is not as stable yet.
> I have downloaded version 628 (I think) and as of yet have not installed
> to test out the features. Using 625 (on Win- hey it's what I was running
> at the time) it seemed prone to crashing. On the RH box it ran pretty
> well.