From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 3 11:56:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9322E37B406 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:56:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6D44; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:56:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3B6AF3E8.2B08EFEC@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:56:40 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Roth, William" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: wordprocessing & GUI choice References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Roth, William" wrote: > Like many gnewbies (I add the g cuz I am new to Open Source unices, but not > computers in general) ... Ha! The "G" generally refers to GNU, and not Open Source, and especially not FreeBSD. It seems rather incongrous calling yourself a "gnewbie" to FreeBSD :-) > ... I am familiarizing myself with the KDE office Hmmm, maybe you're a "knewbie!" > ...Do many people use CUPS? I haven't used it yet. It sounds interesting, and I suppose one of these days I will. KOffice isn't quite ready for the big time. There will be a 1.1 release soon, and it will be a lot closer then. In the meantime you can use StarOffice or Applix. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message