Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:37:19 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TextMaker for FreeBSD now also supports FreeBSD 5.x Message-ID: <20031010193719.GD643@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <3F870752.3010108@daleco.biz> References: <XFMail.20031010124741.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3F870752.3010108@daleco.biz>
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--BI5RvnYi6R4T2M87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:24:02PM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wro= te: > John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > >On 09-Oct-2003 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > >=20 > > > >>As for the product, my initial impression is rather favorable, but as > >>I'm running 5.1 and waiting for Java, I can't compare it to OO. > >> =20 > >> > > > >You can build OO from ports on -CURRENT, btw. It took about 23 hours > >on my P3/700 laptop, but it does work. I used Impress for the slides > >for my BSDCon talk this year. > > > Really? >=20 > Hmm, if I can get it working, my build should be faster > (Athlon 1800+ here...) AFAIR, when I started > /usr/ports/editors/openoffice it decided it needed Java, > & asked me to download it manually. I don't recall > whether or not I decided that download ever got > here (dialup, 44,000 on a good day) and perhaps > I wrongly assumed that when the FBSD Foundation > said that Java wasn't working on 5.x, they were correct. > Speaking of FBSDF, aren't you part of that? Maybe > I read wrongly... >=20 The 'not working on 5.X' part is true for the binary java packages the FreeBSD Foundation provides. Of course you can build the java ports on 5.X and they will work. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --BI5RvnYi6R4T2M87 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/hwpvbHYXjKDtmC0RAjN1AJwKZPDCoAlVgGMu8LfH9LPSaNz3vgCgj1Mg DpoCRVx9+IeTB7nhJWQn1rk= =aOPc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BI5RvnYi6R4T2M87--
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