From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 1 20: 6:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C7A37B421 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id XAA09246; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:05:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:05:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: Mike Porter , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Staroffice woes on 4.4 RC --SOLVED!! In-Reply-To: <20010901190430.B22131@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Chad R. Larson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:30:51PM -0600, Mike Porter wrote: > > (posting the solution here so it can go into the archives on the off > > chance that somone else in the future might actually search the > > archives before posting and find the answer to his question....) > > This is an off-topic question, but this is probably the closest place > I can come to for some guesses... > > The company where I work has been =very= put off by the licensing > Microsoft is rolling out with XP. I've proposed that for most > purposes, we could replace the desktops now in use with StarOffice. > I'd prefer using the SunRay thin client and an Enterprise-class > server for most desktops. We're using SunRay clients off an Enterprise server with good luck - almost. After nearly a year, the appliances (SunRay 1) started failing. But they have a 3 or 5 year warranty and Sun ships you new ones within a day or two no questions asked. The SunRay 1's only cost us $377 US, so order a couple spare so you can swap them in while you wait a couple of days for new ones to show up. I'm not sure why they started failing. We do set them up to max out the video at 1280x1024 @ 85Hz though. We haven't tried StarOffice yet. We use a Windows 2000 box with Terminal Services and Citrix, and run Citrix clients on the Sun Enterprise server to offer up the typical Windows apps (Office, Project, etc). We don't have a solution for the laptops, though. We still run Windows NT and 2000 on them. So far, FreeBSD is limited to our file and web servers and routers/firewalls. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message