1. A GNOME spreadsheet application Gnumeric is a powerful spreadsheet application that interoperates well with other spreadsheets. It comes with plugins that enable it to deal with commonly used spreadsheet file formats, including o Microsoft(R) Excel95 (.xls) o Comma/Character Separated Values (.csv) o XBase (.dbf), o MultiPlan (.sylk) o PlanPerfect o Lotus 123 (.wks, .wk1) o Applix version 4 (.as) o Data Interchange Format (.dif) o GNU Oleo (.oleo) o SC/XSpread o Linear and integer program expression format (.mps) and can export to LaTeX, Roff and HTML as well. Gnumeric should be easy to use, in particular if you are familiar with Excel. Gnumeric is a GNOME application. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

2. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set ofapplications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME is based completely on free software. This is the Gnumeric, the GNOME spreadsheet program. If you are familiar with Excel, you should be ready to use Gnumeric. It tries to clone all ofthe good features and stay as compatible as possible with Excel in terms ofusability. Hopefully the bugs have been left behind :). From Mandrake 9.0 RPM