From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 16 14:25:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24995 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0075.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.188.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24988 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:25:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA14727; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:25:04 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:25:03 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Detailed info on Fail-safe cluster for Freebsd/unixes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote: > > From: The Hermit Hacker [SMTP:scrappy@hub.org] > > > > Actually, I have to quickly agree with Chuck on this...I don't > > personally want WordPerfect, mind you. But, I would be willing to pay for > > a copy of StarOffice 5.0 if it were native to FreeBSD, since it would > > effectively allow me to totally ditch any reliance I have on Winbloze... > > > There exists the native Applixware for FreeBSD, you > can get if from WC CD-ROM. No, I have not tried it > yet, but I have already ordered it :-) Last I saw, it isn't available until February...and I'm eagerly awaiting it :) I'd put my order in rigth now, except that I dont' have a credit card to do so with :( > Personally, I think that it should be announced more > loudly both on the mailing lists (perhaps -announce?) > and the web site. I believe that having a native office > package is an important milestone for FreeBSD. Agreed...I rarely go to www.cdrom.com to check things out, and altho I assume that there was an announcement put out to the lists, I never saw it :( Do we have a 'news' web page that one can look at for milestones? ie. 3.0 Released on Oct XX ... Porting of Applixware started on XX :) Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message