From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 21 17:34:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.sonntag.org (dns.sonntag.org [216.140.186.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEB914F53; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 17:33:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aaron@sonntag.org) Received: from aaron (cs2732-58.austin.rr.com [24.27.32.58]) by dns.sonntag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA11764; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:33:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from aaron@sonntag.org) From: "Aaron Sonntag" To: , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: , , , , Subject: RE: StarOffice 5 on a SMP system..... or Applixware... Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:50:25 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199911220113.SAA26592@freeway.dcfinc.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have just got to say it... the implementation of star office as a standard freebsd port is very very important... In the last two weeks alone three companies have asked me about running bsd as a desktop system... and this decision was going to be based up on whether start office could be easily implemented... The workstation market can not be ignored... Aaron Sonntag Nobell Network Manager As I recall, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I guess another alternative is to go buy the Applixware CD from > > freebsdmall.com. That's what I plan to do. As long as I know it won't > > suffer from the same SMP-related issues as StarOffice. I don't know who > > could confirm it'll be fine, but I'd like to hear from someone. > > Applixware works just fine under SMP. That's how I did all of the > testing, in fact. > > - Jordan Are there any solid plans for a native FreeBSD port of StarOffice whenever Sun gets around to releasing the sources? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message