Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 15:18:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@bayouhome.net> Cc: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect Office2000 for Linux--Installable? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005071516030.74762-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <20000507150950.A1049@gforce.johnson.home>
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Interesting to know. I think Star Office is a great replacement for WP and Word. It is a full office suite and I am surprised how powerful it is. It runs on just about every system and they are working on the Mac version now. Why go not go with an option that makes it easy to install and then to use. And soon enough KOffice will be just as appealing. That should run on any Unix system you want to compile it on. Corel needs to learn to play the game if they want to be a player. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? On Sun, 7 May 2000, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:46:51PM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > > Yes, I realized that about 2 minutes after I sent the email when I > > decided to install WP8 myself. I am thinking that if WP8 for linux > > can install, you can get WP2000 to install, ... > > You can not really make that jump from WP8 to WP2000. The reason I > say that is because WP8 is a Linux binary and WP2000 is actually the > Windows version with the necessary version of WINE included to run it > on Linux. Note that the version of WINE that Corel uses is their own > development branch so just installing the FreeBSD WINE port will not get > you any further. Somewhere on Corel's Web site I read that the changes > they [Corel] were making to WINE were not being incorporated into the > WINE project fast enough so they decided to ship their own modified > version. Smells like market pressure to me. > > I have not played with any version of WINE in a very long time but my > understanding was that it does not run as well on FreeBSD as it does on > Linux. Perhaps Corel's version would run better? > > -- > Glenn Johnson > glennpj@bayouhome.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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