Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:36:39 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Nelis Lamprecht <nelis@brabys.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows Message-ID: <20021128143639.GT77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021128155329.013e16e8@192.96.48.11> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021128155329.013e16e8@192.96.48.11>
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# nelis@brabys.co.za / 2002-11-28 16:14:38 +0200:
> Hi People
>
> I want to use FreeBSD as my desktop OS with Gnome but I still need to do
> Windows luser support. I have installed Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable and
> now I'm trying to figure out what is the best solution. Does the Vmware
> port still work and or should I just install Samba and which Office
> Software would be best suited to use that is compatible with MS Word and
> Exel ? I know of Openoffice, Gnomeoffice and Staroffice but have had no
> experience using either.
>
> Your suggestions, help much appreciated.
I use TightVNC instead of vmware. Works quite fine, and it's almost
free (GPL).
As for office software: all my attempts to use various incarnations
ended in disasters:
Koffice (~1 year ago): no Kapplication lasted longer than ~30
seconds
AbiWord (june/july): 70% of attempts to save a short and simple
.doc made Abi go in a tight loop or just die. I ended up using
wv (/usr/ports/textproc/wv), which *did* work as advertised.
OpenOffice (~1 month ago): crash! boom! bang!
so, my advice would be: vmware or vnc.
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