From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 18:44:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22422 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:44:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22412 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:44:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com) Received: (from ck@localhost) by ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id VAA17825; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 21:44:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981231214412.C4306@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 21:44:12 +875500 From: Christian Kuhtz To: Scott Barron Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0 References: <19981231165447.A2862@tar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Scott Barron on Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 05:44:03PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 05:44:03PM -0600, Scott Barron wrote: > I would like to add a note here. I had the same problem described > while running Linux. My box has 96M RAM and about 130M of swap space. Star > Office would freeze in about the same place, but I was not so lucky to have > regained control of my keyboard and hence had to do a cold boot. After doing > it twice I decided to heck with it and downloaded word perfect 8. I have not > tried anything on FreeBSD yet. Has anyone attempted running WP8 on FreeBSD? > It was a lot less resource hungry than SO4 on Linux. WordPerfect8 works like a charm on a recent 3.0-CURRENT box. Cheers, Chris -- "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists." -- John Kenneth Galbraith [Disclaimer: I speak for myself and my views are my own and not in any way to be construed as the views of BellSouth Corporation. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message