liquidzoo Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Has anyone tried SOT Office? http://www.sotlinux.org/en/products/office.php It looks like it does everything that OO and SO do, just something different. I was wondering if anyone had tried it and what their impressions were/are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 I realy wanted to try it, but I wasn't able to download. I got a 404 going http and refused conection ftp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 I am on their site now - it looks great! I see it is based on Open Office. They do not have contributed rpms available yet, but they are looking for people to do it, anyone who can help out, follow this link: http://www.sotlinux.org/en/download/contri...ibuted_rpms.php I am going to download the other available rpm package so long and see if I can get it going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 I realy wanted to try it, but I wasn't able to download. I got a 404 going http and refused conection ftpI am getting the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 I am connected to one of their mirror sites (I got the same error going to their main server) ftp.funet.fi and I am downloading the entire package right now. We'll see how it goes. I am getting the entire folder, but there is just a RPMs folder that might be faster. Oh well. Never hurts when you have broadband. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 I am connected to one of their mirror sites (I got the same error going to their main server) ftp.funet.fi and I am downloading the entire package right now. We'll see how it goes. Where on the server is it? I can't seem to find it... I am getting the entire folder, but there is just a RPMs folder that might be faster. Oh well. Never hurts when you have broadband. I want broadband! A company launched it in South Africa two years ago and then went bust. Now we have to sit with either dialup or a really unstable ADSL. Well, at least I can use our Diginet line at work :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 ftp.funet.fi It's in Finland, pretty fasy on my connection. If you're on dialup, I would probably suggest just going for the rpm. The full path for SOT Office at this particular server is: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/www.sot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Thanks... it times out though. I will try again later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 I am accessing it through gFTP with no problem. Your luck may vary, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Ok, got it going now. Too bad there is only an i386 package available. Will have to wait for those contrib rpms... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Done and installed. First impressions: A lot like OOo. Setup seems almost identical. Anyone want a copy of the rpm? Here's a link click here for rpm or here for source If that doesn't work, right click the link and choose save as. They're big files, be prepared to be downloading for a while. You've heard what I think, tell us what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 I want to know how well it reads and re-writes a .doc. Does the format get screwed up like with all the others? I'm dialup, so it would be great if someone could test this and save me a huge download. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 i'm going to try this sucker out once i have gentoo back up and running.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 I want to know how well it reads and re-writes a .doc. Does the format get screwed up like with all the others? I'm dialup, so it would be great if someone could test this and save me a huge download. Thanks! From what I can tell, it seems to save the file just fine. I opened a copy of my resume with SOT, resaved it and opened it with M$ Word on my laptop and aside from the font being a little smaller than the original, everything looked just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Have they made any improvements to Impress? For me, it's the only app in OO that is beaten by PowerPoint. I'm looking at speed, ease of use/polish (there are many niggling bugs in the RPMs shipped with MDK), and good looking design templates (PowerPoint really beats OO in that category). --Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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