From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 16: 5:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4042D37B5CE for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (tntwc01-3-146.idx.com.au [203.166.3.146]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA26090; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:02:22 +1000 From: Danny To: Christoph Sold , j mckitrick Subject: Re: linux emulation and office suites Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:06:04 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3958B8C1.7C37DA6E@i-clue.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00062809083602.00320@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -Or even better.... - I strongly encourage all FreeBSD users looking for a Office Applcation to purchase Applixware 4.2 from www.freebsdmall.com - It only takes 15 minutes to install - Works with*.doc, *.xls etc etc On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Christoph Sold wrote: > j mckitrick wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:37:14AM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > i want to install staroffice 5.2. if there is no port for it, do i just > > > > have to install the linux emulation? or the linux emulation port? these > > > > are two different things, right? > > > > > > You can install linux emulation via the ports, > > > /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base > > > that will give you a Red Hat-like linux environment in /compat/linux. > > > You'd also need a kernel compatibility module, or a kernel > > > compiled with the option LINUX. > > > I don't know whether StarOffice will work out of the box. Quite > > > likely will. > > > > Is there anything that staroffice 5.2 does that is significantly better than > > applix office? And has anyone tried the applix 4.0 alpha release? > > Staroffice 5.2 looks nice and comfortable on my Winblowz box right > beside me. Opens all the news M$ Office documents I can throw at it, > with surprisingly few layout problems. > > IMHO it would be _very_ nice to have StarOffice rtunning under *BSD, > either in Linux emulation, or -even better- native. > > Just my $.05 > -Christoph Sold > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- You are not authorized to use my email address for any purpose. This is a violation of my privacy. Remove my email address from your databases immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message