From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 23:51: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from paert.tse-online.de (paert.tse-online.de [194.97.69.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89EF8155DD for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 23:51:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ab@paert.tse-online.de) Received: (qmail 27170 invoked by uid 1000); 11 May 1999 06:51:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 08:51:45 +0200 From: Andreas Braukmann To: hackers list Cc: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? Message-ID: <19990511085145.I387@paert.tse-online.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:59:49PM -0400 Organization: TSE TeleService GmbH Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:59:49PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Brian Handy wrote: > That's a good idea. Folks who walk around bad-mouthing anything that is > sold for money, well, that's a blind prejudice, and about as accurate as > most blind prejudices. I have to second this. > tools, but there is NOT one single free wp in the useability range of > applixware or WordPerfect. I really would like to have something like Applixware native for FreeBSD. For now I would have _easily_ two companies at hand that would switch their desktops to FreeBSD for stability sake. > Mike's right about Applixware being huge, that's one strong reason I > went with WordPerfect, because applixware (the Linux version) nearly > eats up a disk all by itself it's so huge. My (default) Applixware installation eats 268 MBytes (including more than 35 MBytes of cliparts) of diskspace; considering that the IBM 10 GB EIDE-disks are ca. 150 Euro thats the equivalent value of ca. 4 Euro (less than 5 Bucks) of diskspace. Andreas -- : Anti-Spam Petition: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ : : PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key : : Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message