linuxrevolution.blogspot.com — OpenOffice.org Impress? Boring. Agnubis? Dead. Criawips? Dead. We're left with presentations developed on Linux that look like they're from 1995. However, recently the libraries seem to have fallen into place to make a new project viable...
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nekoNov 20, 2006
IMHO, fancy presentations are only useful to managers who need as much fluff and as little content as possible.There's also S5 which can make neat little web-based presentations, handy if the machine hooked up to the projector isn't your own.Honestly, I think the one think that Linux really needs for better presentations is a common tool to abstract away all the hassles of dual head / vga-out / tv-out for laptops to use. It'd be nice if it just knew how to do the most appropriate thing based on your particular graphics chipset & driver. I'm trialling ubuntu on my laptop, and this is one of the (few) areas which aren't super-smooth.