From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 14:19:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A7A37B537 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 14:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.99]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 May 2000 14:23:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3915DDBB.F173D586@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 14:18:51 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: Glenn Johnson , Annelise Anderson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect Office2000 for Linux--Installable? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > Interesting to know. I think Star Office is a great replacement for WP > and Word. It is a full office suite and I am surprised how powerful it > is. > > It runs on just about every system and they are working on the Mac version > now. Why go not go with an option that makes it easy to install and then > to use. > > And soon enough KOffice will be just as appealing. That should run on any > Unix system you want to compile it on. Corel needs to learn to play the > game if they want to be a player. The only problem so far is what versions KOffice will run with. I seem to remember that you need Qt-2.x and kdevelop and other programs at this point only run on 1.45. You have to choose what you want to run. WordPerfect 8 was such a step up from what WordPerfect Corp. and then Novell did. I hid my "Just Say No" button for Wordperfect when 8 came out. The step to 2000 (WP-9) changed things but it still doesn't cooperate in a civil manner on Windows 2000. It basically wants the whole cpu and if you are running anything in the background, it is really sluggish. I always have things running in the background (Setiathome) and that means SOS on FreeBSD. They also raised the smallest font from 4 to 6, which has forced me on occasions to printing using landscape mode instead of portrait. The problem is some cross referencing programs assume you have 60 lines or so an a page and you suddenly have to look up options you haven't used for years. Kent > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? > > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:46:51PM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > > > > Yes, I realized that about 2 minutes after I sent the email when I > > > decided to install WP8 myself. I am thinking that if WP8 for linux > > > can install, you can get WP2000 to install, ... > > > > You can not really make that jump from WP8 to WP2000. The reason I > > say that is because WP8 is a Linux binary and WP2000 is actually the > > Windows version with the necessary version of WINE included to run it > > on Linux. Note that the version of WINE that Corel uses is their own > > development branch so just installing the FreeBSD WINE port will not get > > you any further. Somewhere on Corel's Web site I read that the changes > > they [Corel] were making to WINE were not being incorporated into the > > WINE project fast enough so they decided to ship their own modified > > version. Smells like market pressure to me. > > > > I have not played with any version of WINE in a very long time but my > > understanding was that it does not run as well on FreeBSD as it does on > > Linux. Perhaps Corel's version would run better? > > > > -- > > Glenn Johnson > > glennpj@bayouhome.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message