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Zoho—
With ive million registered users, Zoho is another popular choice. As with
Google Drive, a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation package are included,
but Zoho also ofers enhanced business-centric features like a wiki-based knowledge
base system, web conferencing, inancial management and even customer relationship
management. Many of the advanced features, however, require a paid account. You
can access the service at
http://www.zoho.com
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Oice 365
—If you're a Microsoft Oice user, Oice 365 is a great choice. Based on
the same user interface as the current editions of the Microsoft Oice suite for desk-
tops, Oice 365 is powerful and lexible. Unlike Zoho and Google Drive, Oice 365 has
no free user level and requires a monthly subscription. Additionally, some features
won't work when the software is accessed from a Linux computer. You can subscribe
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hinkFree Online—
A web-based interface to the Hancom hinkFree Oice software,
hinkFree Online ofers word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software for
free with 1 GB of storage. he system also ties in to hinkFree Mobile for tablets and
smartphones, as well as the enterprise-targeted hinkFree Server software. You can
Unfortunately, many of these web-based services require a browser more capable than Midori,
which is provided as the default with the recommended Debian distribution. As a result, you'll
have to install a diferent browser in order to make use of any of these packages. he following
instructions are for installing the Chromium browser, which is an open-source project on which
Google's Chrome browser is based. Its relatively lightweight memory usage makes Chromium a
good choice for the Pi. If you're running the Fedora Remix distribution, which comes with Mozilla
Firefox as its default browser, you can skip these instructions and proceed to the next section.
To install the Chromium browser under Debian, open a terminal and type the following:
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Make sure you install the
chromium-browser
package, and not the
chromium
package—
the latter is a top-down shoot-'em-up arcade game, and although it's fun, it won't help you in
your quest to use cloud-based ofice suites on your Pi!
TIP
With Chromium installed, using a cloud-based oice suite is as simple as visiting the site,
signing up for an account—providing your credit card details in the case of premium services
like Microsoft Oice 365—and logging in. If you ind performance slow, changing the mem-
ory partitioning to give the ARM processor a larger share can help. Chapter 6, “Coniguring
the Raspberry Pi”, has full instructions for how to do this.
