From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 7:14:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7816E37B406 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:14:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E215F43EC2 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from lilith.bellavista.cz ([10.1.0.1]) by bellavista.cz (8.9.3/8.9.8) with ESMTP id QAA10973 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:14:01 +0100 Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by lilith.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED3228 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:11:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 61A502FDAB2; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:14:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:14:02 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows Message-ID: <20021128151402.GU77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20021128143639.GT77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021128155342.Q78309-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021128155342.Q78309-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # kheuer2@gwdg.de / 2002-11-28 15:58:21 +0100: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > # nelis@brabys.co.za / 2002-11-28 16:14:38 +0200: > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > My experience with OpenOffice 1.0.1 is much better than yours, I did a > lot of tasks successfully. installed 1.0.1 from the port. the installer kept complaining about not being able to write files in ~/.kde/blah/blah/blah. no wonder, I avoid using it, and have never installed it on this box. i had to click "skip" like 150 times. disgusting! started openoffice, went File -> Autopilot -> Presentation (or some such). booom! instant crash. how long does it take to click through to that place? just a fraction of the time it takes OO to start. automatic save of native MS Office documents = automatic crash of OO. pasting a graph from a winword doc file = "general failure" in 70% cases. in 1 out of 10 crashes the PowerPoint lookalike comes back up dead. it does offer to recover the files, but then freezes. after another kill/start, it doesn't offer the recovery anymore. summary: thanks, I'm glad I don't *have* to use *any* of this. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message