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Computers are great for collecting and recording music, playing games,
and communicating with far-off lands. While these functions are
popular and exciting, one tool has been considered essential since
the earliest days of personal computers: document-creating applications.
From ultra-simple text-only editors to feature-rich groupware systems, you??™ll
be hard-pressed to find a PC without this basic functionality. Such software
is so important that Microsoft makes billions of dollars each year selling productivity
tools for the Windows OS.
Linux users are, on most levels, no different from any other PC user. They
need to write letters, make presentations, write books, and sort information
in spreadsheets. For the Linux user, a copy of Microsoft Office is simply not
in the cards yet, but there are many powerful tools from which to choose.
OpenOffice.org is a powerful open-source office suite available as a download
and as part of many Linux distributions. Based on Sun Microsystems??™
StarOffice productivity suite, OpenOffice.org includes a word processor,
spreadsheet program, presentation manager, and other personal productivity
tools. In most cases, OpenOffice.org can be used as a drop-in replacement
for Microsoft Office.
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