Spreadsheet application for CentOS 4.3

[heviarti at puresimplicity.net]

 Hmm. Didn't know people actually used those.  I always thought
spreadsheets were like parsley on a dinner plate.

 Matt:  Still interested in that board, but after a series of $225
paychecks I'm starting to starve a little.

> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Clay Carley <cbc at corp.sonic.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running a Digital Personal Workstation 433, running CentOS 4.3.  I
>> love
>> the system, however I need at least a spreadsheet application, if not an
>> entire office suite.
>>
>> OpenOffice.org is pretty much failing to compile.  Either it reports
>> code
>> errors, or occasionally it has issues writing to disc (seems to be a
>> software issue, as I exer'd my drives, and they are fine).
>>
>> KOffice does not compile either, and I haven't been able to find an old
>> version of Star Office.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?  I'm also open to running a different
>> OS,
>> although I am partial to RedHat based systems.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Clay Carley
>
> Just checked. We're apparently still supporting Gnumeric [1] in Gentoo.
>
> Gentoo is going to have the most up-to-date software for alpha in any
> case, but it's probably going to be less fun installing. Raul Porcel
> runs a tinderbox to check for potential problems and it caches the
> built packages here [2] so you could probably speed up the
> installation a lot by telling Portage to use these binary packages.
>
> We're in #alpha and #gentoo-alpha on irc.freenode.net and would love
> to have you there too (and would be glad to help).
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> [1] http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
> [2] http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/alpha/
>
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