From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 20 10:19:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27979 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xfiles.org.uk (fox.pipex.net [158.43.140.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA27939 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:19:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benhutch@lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk) Received: (qmail 8082 invoked from network); 20 Sep 1998 17:19:07 -0000 Received: from lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk (194.200.230.242) by quantico.xfiles.org.uk with SMTP; 20 Sep 1998 17:19:07 -0000 Received: (from benhutch@localhost) by lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22084 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 18:19:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from benhutch) Message-ID: <19980920181911.B21185@xfiles.org.uk> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 18:19:11 +0100 From: Ben Hutchinson To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office 5 on FreeBSD References: <19980920135656.36867@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew McNaughton on Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 01:59:53AM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 01:59:53AM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > www.cdrom.com is advertising a soon to be released port of using > Applixware to FreeBSD. Does anyone have experience with Applixware on > other platforms, or know anything about the port? I've used it on RedHat 5.0 and was quite impressed with it. I believe that the Linux version will run on FreeBSD via the linux_lib port but I haven't had any experience with that (yet). > I'm a bit wary of buying it too early in case of bugs, and it sounds > pretty resource intensive, but the discussion on the redhat applix list > seems like many people prefer it to Star Office. I didn't encounter any bugs with it on my system, but I didn't use all it's features. It is, like most office productivity suites, pretty resource intensive. I had no problems on my P200 w 128MB of RAM, but noticed the difference in speed on a friend's P90 w 104MB of RAM. I also tried Star Office and found it to be far worse in terms of responsiveness. - Ben -- "I Want To Believe" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message