From: Derek Harding

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I'd forget StarOffice, and look at KOffice, but then I am slightly biased ;)

I've never got KOffice to run stable enough to use! What's your secret?

Disclaimer: I have no idea how KOffice would cope in an education environment. I'm a Sixth Former at the moment, and I'm currently in the school Library, and typing this on a 486DX4 @ 100MHz, running Win 95. Unfortuantely, the school are heavy investors in RM crap, and I think NT4(servers)/Win95(desktops) is used throughout the school :( The first thing it to forget KOffice 1.0. KOffice 1.1beta is a *masssive* improvement over KOffice 1.0, and even the betas are significantly better. Before the final KOffice 1.0 release, there will be a release candidate and another beta as well. So basically, I would download the beta and try it -- it's really good IMHO. But then I'm slightly biased as I said (I help develop koffice.org and I'm trying to teach my self C++/Qt/KDE development). THe release schedule and resources are available on KOffice.org. Chris Howells