Operation Manual

• Zoho—With five million registered users, Zoho is another popular choice. As with Google Drive, a word processor,
spreadsheet and presentation package are included, but Zoho also offers enhanced business-centric features like a wiki-
based knowledge base system, web conferencing, financial 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.
• Office 365—If you’re a Microsoft Office user, Office 365 is a great choice. Based on the same user interface as the current
editions of the Microsoft Office suite for desktops, Office 365 is powerful and flexible. Unlike Zoho and Google Drive, Office
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 the service at http://office365.microsoft.com.
• ThinkFree Online—A web-based interface to the Hancom ThinkFree Office software, ThinkFree Online offers word
processing, spreadsheet and presentation software for free with 1 GB of storage. The system also ties in to ThinkFree Mobile
for tablets and smartphones, as well as the enterprise-targeted ThinkFree Server software. You can subscribe to the service
at http://online.thinkfree.com.
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 different browser in order to make use of any of
these packages. The 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 office suites on your Pi!
With Chromium installed, using a cloud-based office 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 Office 365—and logging in. If you find performance slow,
changing the memory partitioning to give the ARM processor a larger share can help. Chapter 6, “Configuring the Raspberry Pi”,
has full instructions for how to do this.