GNU Oleo

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Original author(s)Tom Lord,[1]
Initial release1992; 32 years ago (1992)[1]
Final release
1.6.16[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 10 March 1999
Preview release
1.99.16[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 10 March 2001
Written inC
TypeSpreadsheet
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Websitewww.gnu.org/software/oleo/oleo.html

GNU Oleo is a discontinued[4] lightweight free software spreadsheet[5] originally designed as a text-based spreadsheet using the curses library. The last development version of Oleo, 1.99.16, was released in 2001.

History

The project was started in 1992 by Tom Lord,

sc were the first Unix spreadsheet applications to acquire a graphical user interface.[8] Because Oleo was officially part of the GNU project, it was dubbed "GNU's response to Excel" in a 1996 article in iX magazine.[9] It claimed to be "better than the high priced spread",[10] a reference to old oleomargarine advertisements promoting margarine over the more expensive butter. Oleo also worked well in a BSD environment; a FreeBSD port was available.[6]

By 1995,

Xbase and DBF file access.[6] It has support for macro programming, and for printing purposes it supports ASCII and PostScript output.[13] Still, by 2000 it could not import Excel spreadsheets, while newer open source alternatives like Gnumeric offered this feature,[6] and could also import Oleo spreadsheets.[14]

Oleo was still recommended as a console spreadsheet application in a 2005 article in

GNU screen or multiple terminals can be used as a work-around. Oleo supports editing the same spreadsheet in concurrent application instances.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d https://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/ChangeLog
  2. ^ "ChangeLog". 22 November 2000. Archived from the original on 8 January 2001.
  3. ^ "Oleo - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation". 10 March 2001. Archived from the original on 1 April 2001.
  4. ^ "oleo - Summary [Savannah]". savannah.gnu.org. 2001-01-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18. Development Status: ? - Orphaned/Unmaintained
  5. ^ "Oleo - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation)". GNU.org. 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  6. ^
    BSD Today
    , August 2000
  7. ^ a b c "Novice to Novice | Linux Journal". www.linuxjournal.com. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  8. ^ a b "The Xxl Spreadsheet Project | Linux Journal". www.linuxjournal.com. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  9. ^ online, heise (1996-03-17). "GNU mal wieder". iX Magazin (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  10. ^ "Oleo 1.99.13:". www.gnu.org. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  11. ^ "xxl: A Free Spreadsheet for Linux | Linux Journal". www.linuxjournal.com. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  12. ^ a b "Oleo: a commandline spreadsheet". Tux Training. Archived from the original on 2008-10-06.
  13. ^ a b c "Articles about Code Red are invading the Internet". Linux.com. 2001-08-06. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  14. LinuxPlanet. Archived from the original
    on 2000-08-23.

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