The best office software in linux is free for personal use now - EIOffice Personal 2009 released

I know there is a software called OpenOffice, and I keep trying the newest version.
But, still, I want to say that EIOffice from China - Wuxi is the best office software in linux.
I have been using EIOffice 2007 in the past year. I did not buy a license from the company, so I had to close the warning window ever time I started the software. Luckily, after the trial period, the software is still fully functional.

Recently, the company just released the EIOffice Personal 2009, which is free!

Unlike some posts on the internet, the default installation process is quite smooth. I am using Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) i386 with 2.6.26.2 kernel. The only thing I have to do before installing the 2009 is that I have to uninstall the old 2007 version. The following command will do the trick.

sudo /usr/bin/rmeio

The configuration step took a little longer than I anticipated.
I did not reboot the system as suggested by the installation script. Instead, I just logout and login.
Now EIOffice 2009 is happily running in my linux box. I no longer need to close the warning sign now.



One bug I notice is that if I am using MToolkit, the configuration tab will not work and the three-quick-button cannot be relocated. Since I am not using the fancy 3D UI, I edited the /usr/bin/eio, and commented out the version check script like the following part.

<a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23if" target="_blank" class="litwitter">#if</a> test -n "$(grep  "Ubuntu"  /proc/version)"; then
#   export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
<a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23else" target="_blank" class="litwitter">#else</a>
   export AWT_TOOLKIT=XToolkit
<a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23fi" target="_blank" class="litwitter">#fi</a>

Now, all good!