From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 22 14:27:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35A637B60A for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:27:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29919; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:27:21 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdL29917; Fri Jun 23 07:27:20 2000 Message-ID: <00cb01bfdc90$e386b200$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Heiko Recktenwald" , "ML Duke" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Staroffice 3.1 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:29:00 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been using StarOffice 5.1 in Solaris & Windows for some time & never had any serious complaints with it. I figure the main thing many geeks really hate about it is that it uses those dreadful Microsoft formats by default rather than some other weird thing that nobody on planet earth has ever heard of :). Its far more compact than either Office 97 or Office 2000, although size hasn't ever been much of an issue for me anyway. Dunno about version 3.1 / linux / FreeBSD though ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heiko Recktenwald" To: "ML Duke" Cc: Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 5:06 AM Subject: Re: Staroffice 3.1 > Well, I speak german ;-) > > > It runs in X (of course) and requires the Linux libraries. With this, > > I've been creating and exchanging compatible documents with clients > > all over as it converts to word 6.0/7.0 (among a slug of other > > Think Staroffice can only read those. Thanks ! > > 50 or 70 MB or so ? ;-) > > All I need is a word processor, as you describe it. No "Office Suite"... > > Somebody should develop some package with just this. > > H. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message