From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 16 7: 5:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.polytechnic.edu.na (mail.polytechnic.edu.na [196.31.225.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA8637BA67; Tue, 16 May 2000 07:05:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@polytechnic.edu.na) Received: from [196.31.225.199] (helo=polytechnic.edu.na) by mail.polytechnic.edu.na with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 12rjqi-0007Jq-00; Tue, 16 May 2000 14:05:36 -0200 Message-ID: <39215548.60090E20@polytechnic.edu.na> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:03:52 +0100 From: Tim Priebe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gilbert Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU, freebsd-emulators@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 References: <14624.35092.234693.852141@trooper.velocet.net> <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <14624.44959.656398.461558@trooper.velocet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Chad" == Chad R Larson writes: > > Chad> As I recall, David Gilbert wrote: > >> I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it. > > Chad> This is older hat, but I've had WordPerfect 8 running on a > Chad> 2.2.8-STABLE system under Linux emulation since Dec, 1998. > > Chad> Has anyone tried to evaluate pros and cons of the various office > Chad> suites? > > Chad> 1) Applixware - native > > Applixware is a good but somewhat immature product. I have run it > both under linux emulation and under native code. While it's a good > basic package, it tends to fall down if your needs are complex. > > The programability is cool. I could see getting into it if the > spreadsheet was a little more featureful (or maybe we just havn't > found the features yet). I must say that Applixware is the best > behaved X application of its type, if that's anything to go on. I have had good experiance with the FreeBSD version of Applixware. It is what I am using these days, it is not perfect, but then what is? There is also a java version which I would like to try some time, could be good for the nc's. > Chad> 2) StarOffice - linux > > I must admit that I should take another look at this. My earlier > impression was that it was kludgy. I don't know if it has improved. Even with Linux you want 128MB RAM to run this. I did not really like the earlier versions, I suppose I should try 5.2 which came with Solaris 8. [...] Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message