From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 18 6:56:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9EF37B7F4 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 06:56:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([216.252.134.19]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4AA6; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:55:45 -0400 Message-ID: <38FC69D5.E7BACABD@asme.org> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:57:41 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ anti-trust case References: <20000417233941.A532@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.2.2.20000418072937.0467ce80@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > At 12:35 AM 4/18/2000 , Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > > >In Denmark one of the major banks are installing StarOffice instead of MS > >Office on 6000 workstations. (Pretty much everywhere in the organization I > >believe). Still on windows though, but it's a great start. > > How does the Linux implementatio of StarOffice work on FreeBSD? I am > surprised that Sun, given its BSD roots, hasn't come out with a BSD > port. > What roots? After SunOS 4.1.x they have been claiming they are a sysvish UNIX. The Solaris version won't work on Unixware, though. I understand the Linux version works, but I am awaiting for them to release the source code. I am currently using the OS/2 and the winblows ports. Staroffice is not 100% compatible with M$-Office, I had to install the MS-Wordviewer, but it's pretty good. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message